Nick Reiner’s lawyers submitted new documents to the court to demand the urgent release of funds from his family trust. The accused of the murder of his parents — filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner — seeks to obtain the necessary resources to finance his criminal defense and cover his basic maintenance expenses. However, his legal representatives denounced that the young man has not received “neither five dollars” of the accumulated fund.
Reiner, 32, has been in custody without bail since December 2025 at the Twin Towers Detention Center in Los Angeles. The lack of liquidity prevented him from holding criminal Alan Jackson, a renowned lawyer who previously retired from the case after the suspension of payments of his fees.
The center of the legal dispute revolves around the administration of the Nick Reiner Children’s Trust Dated December 2, 1993, a fund created by his parents and valued at $1.6 million. The Defenders of Reiner, Anita P. Wu and Geoffrey A. Neri, argue that his client was owed at least $558,000 since September 2023, when he turned 30 and his parents were still alive, in accordance with scheduled distribution clauses.
For her part, manager Jodi Pais Montgomery and former trustee Paul R. Kanin froze the deliveries under the California Slayer Statute. This rule prohibits a person suspected or convicted of someone’s death from receiving his or her estate. Montgomery’s legal representation said that authorizing a disbursement would be “irreversible” and that the assets should be transferred to the accused’s brothers, Jake and Romy Reiner.
However, the defense claimed that at least $325,000 came from her grandfather, Carl Reiner, who died in 2020, so that rule should not apply to that specific amount. The law firm also questioned that the managers had spent more than $250,000 in legal fees to defend their blocking stance, which represents almost half of the money originally owed.
