Overview
- Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead on December 14, 2025, and their son Nick was arrested and later charged in connection with their deaths.
- Court documents say the family trust paid roughly $348,000–$350,000 in December 2025 to cover about two weeks of work by attorney Alan Jackson before he withdrew from the case.
- Nick has sued the trust’s current and former administrators, alleging they are improperly withholding further distributions that he says he needs to rehire Jackson.
- Trustee Jodi Montgomery and others have blocked additional payouts, citing California’s slayer statute which bars someone who unlawfully killed a decedent from benefiting from that person’s estate or trust.
- Former trustee Paul Kanin says he approved the December payments and disputes claims of neglect, and the court dispute over the remaining roughly $1.5–$1.6 million in the trust will largely determine whether Reiner can pay for private counsel while his criminal case proceeds.