Aretha Franklin's family heads to court in estate battle
A probate court trial involving three of her four sons began Monday in Michigan after Franklin failed to leave behind a typed estate plan. The Queen of Soul died in 2018 at age 76 from a rare form of cancer. More than one will At the heart of the legal dispute are two separate wills. Shortly after Franklin’s death, her niece, Sabrina Owens, who at the time was the representative for the estate, found multiple, handwritten wills by the singer in her suburban Detroit home.
The latter would be required to take business classes and, along with Ted, must provide a ‘1st class home for Edward,’” the papers state, according to the Detroit Free Press. “The 2014 document, on the other hand, gives that Bloomfield Hills house solely to Kecalf. Unlike his older brothers, he’d made a big family with two daughters and two sons — Aretha’s grandchildren.
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