Overview
- Results from a recent battery of tests in New York were delivered to Williams’ legal team late last month, according to multiple reports.
- The new medical opinion contradicts earlier assessments that underpinned court control, and experts note frontotemporal dementia is typically degenerative.
- Williams’ attorneys will ask a judge to terminate the guardianship, and if rejected, lawyer Joe Tacopina plans to seek a jury trial.
- Williams has been under court-ordered supervision since 2022 after Wells Fargo alerted the court to concerns about undue influence and exploitation.
- Lawyers for guardian Sabrina E. Morrissey previously cited extensive medical and neuropsychological testing and brain imaging to support findings of incapacity.