Nick Lehner‘s lawyer claims he hasn’t received ‘even $5’ from family trust while awaiting trial over parent’s death Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Rainer.
New legal documents filed and obtained this week people Nick’s lawyers responded to the 32-year-old client’s objections to accessing his family trust, the outlet reported on Friday, September 18.
Every peopleNick’s legal team responds to successor trustee jody pais montgomery and former trustees Paul Kanin in two separate responses filed Thursday, Sept. 17, in Los Angeles Superior Court.
“Meanwhile, Nick remains unable to withdraw $5 from his trust fund to purchase basic supplies from the prison commissary,” Nick’s attorney said. Wu Peini and Jeffrey A. Nerywrote in response to Montgomery.
In response to Kanin, Nick’s attorney argued that “Nick was unable to obtain funds that were legally his own, unable to rehire a criminal defense attorney, or even obtain basic supplies from the prison commissary.”
According to the indictment obtained us On August 12, Nick was charged with the first-degree murder of his parents on December 14, 2025, in their Los Angeles home. Rob was 78 and Michelle was 70.
Nick, who has struggled with drug addiction and mental health issues for years, previously pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, including multiple murders and a special circumstance charge of opportunistic murder after the indictment was unsealed.
Michelle, Rob and Nick Renner.
(Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue)Back in June, Nick made his first attempt to get his share of the $1.5 million trust fund set up by his late parents.
At the time, Nick argued that he should receive half of the money when he turns 30 in September 2023. (The trust was established by his parents when he was born in 1993.)
However, in early August, attorneys for Nick’s former and current trustees, Kanin and Montgomery, attempted to prevent him from receiving any funds from the trust due to California’s “killer statute.”
Nick Reiner’s legal team is in court seeking access to a trust set up by his late parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. “The bottom line from today’s hearing and going forward is that Nick Renner is very much entitled to his own money, his own funding. That’s what this process is for.” […]
The Homicide Act provides that “a person who commits a felony and intentionally kills a deceased person shall not be entitled” to any financial assets or property from the person killed.
Nick’s legal team went to court on August 17 to seek access to the trust funds.
“The bottom line from today’s hearing and going forward is that Nick Renner is very much entitled to his own money, his own funds. That’s what this process is about,” Nick’s former attorney, Alan Jackson, told me. us and other reporters outside the court at the time. “He has decided that he wants to be able to use the funds in his trust account to determine his criminal attorney. When he is allowed to do so, he will be able to defend himself in the manner that the Constitution says he should and can defend himself.”