Robin Williams Death Update: Family Continues Battling Over His Estate, Courts May Decide Outcome
The fate of Robin Williams' estate could now be determined in the court system after his family failed to reach agreement on how it should be fairly allocated.
The Daily Mail reports the famed comedian's widow, Susan Schneider, and his three children reached agreement concerning most of his personal effects and possessions, but were unable to come to terms about how much money she should receive over her lifetime.
The website adds a special hearing has been scheduled for Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, at which time lawyers for both sides are expected to seek additional time, in hopes of the two sides ultimately reaching an agreement.
The 63-year-old actor committed suicide in his Tiburon home late last year. He left most of his estate to his children, Cody 23, and Zelda, 25, whose mother is Williams' second wife, Marsha Garces; and Zachary, 31, his son with first wife, Valerie Velardi.
According to the LA Times, court documents filed by Schneider reveal Williams has ensured that his children receive all future earnings generated from his acting career, life insurance proceeds, a property in Napa, liquid assets and valuable pieces of personal belongings.
While the total value of the estate has never been made public, reports are that some items -- bicycles, artwork, watches and other seemingly trivial possessions -- are all matters of contention.
In the wake of a recent March 30 hearing, movers, lawyers and agents reportedly stripped Williams' home of countless pieces of personal property, removing art off walls and emptying closets.
"It was an incredibly invasive process made exponentially more difficult by the fact that so many of the items taken were intimately connected with Susan's memories of her husband, who had only recently passed away," her attorney, James Wagstaffe, said in court documents.
In his will, Williams also made certain to make sure that Schneider and her two sons were adequately cared for, including leaving them such gifts as the home they shared and the creation of a trust in her name to pay for living expenses.
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