Nick Reiner’s Parents Called His Trust ‘Mandatory’ — Now He Wants Every Dollar

Rob and Michele Reiner built a trust for their son Nick when he was an infant. They chose the word “mandatory.” They chose the word “unconditional.” Three decades later, those two words may be the strongest weapon in a probate petition filed from a Los Angeles jail cell — by the man accused of killing them both.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us live for the full fight. He opens with the document at the center: a trust that, according to the petition, required half its value to be paid to Nick at age thirty, with the remainder at thirty-five. Nick crossed the first threshold more than two years before Rob and Michele died. The filing says no distribution was ever made. His legal team now demands the full balance — reportedly more than $1.5 million — to fund his defense and rehire attorney Alan Jackson, who left the case when money dried up and has said in writing he’ll return if funding clears.

Faddis pressure-tests every layer live: the weight “mandatory” carries in a California courtroom, the presumption-of-innocence argument underpinning the demand, and the procedural scenario in which an unopposed petition could be approved without a hearing. Then the counterpunch — the trustee who resigned, the slayer statute waiting behind any guilty verdict, the options still available to siblings Jake and Romy Reiner, and the arrival of new trustee Jodi Montgomery, whose previous high-profile assignment was Britney Spears’ conservatorship. Faddis maps what Montgomery’s requested jailhouse meeting with Nick is designed to assess, and he makes his call on where this money sits six months from now.

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