Here’s a story about a celebrity dying and leaving a Will that is bound for contest in the US courts.
Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model and actress who died in Miami, Florida on 9 Feb 2007, wrote a Will leaving everything to her son, Daniel Smith, and excluding any other person from the inheritance.
However, the 20-year-old Daniel himself is dead. He died last September three days after she gave birth to Danielynn.
In her Will which was made public today, she seems to have excluded any of her future spouses or children from inheriting her estate which is potentially worth at least US$88 million.
“I have intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted,” she said in the Will.
Her Will was dated 30 Jul 2001, long before Daniel’s death or Danielynn’s birth. A new Will was never written after her daughter’s birth.
But according to news reports, her Will also makes reference to “children” and her executor is asked to manage the estate “such that my children are distributed sufficient sums for their health, education and support.”
A CNN report says that while the Will’s language appears to exclude Dannielynn from any inheritance, the fact that there is no living heir means that a court battle over the estate is virtually guaranteed.
Many people are now claiming to be the father of Danielynn and whoever is determined by the court to be the biological father may stand to benefit from her death. It’s going to be very complicated indeed.
Want to read her Will? Here it is: Will of Anna Nicole Smith.
According to the State Laws of Texas, Anna’s mother should at the very least be under investigation by CPS and Law Enforcement for her claimed criminal acts against Anna as a child. See definitions listed below for Child Abuse. Because her mother was a police officer, her awareness of the law makes this even worse, in my opinion. Further, those around Anna had to know something was going on, they to can be prosecuted for the failure to protect Anna from her mother.
We are all talking about HKS. Let’s talk about the criminal acts of her mother. These acts caused great emotional harm that had a deadly cause and effect to Anna. In a sense, her mother killed her, it just took 39 years to accomplish her goal.
http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/child_protection/about_child_protective_services/
FAMILY CODE
SUBTITLE E. PROTECTION OF THE CHILD
CHAPTER 261. INVESTIGATION OF REPORT OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 261.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) “Abuse” includes the following acts or omissions
by a person:
(A) mental or emotional injury to a child that
results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s
growth, development, or psychological functioning;
(B) causing or permitting the child to be in a
situation in which the child sustains a mental or emotional injury
that results in an observable and material impairment in the
child’s growth, development, or psychological functioning;
(C) physical injury that results in substantial
harm to the child, or the genuine threat of substantial harm from
physical injury to the child, including an injury that is at
variance with the history or explanation given and excluding an
accident or reasonable discipline by a parent, guardian, or
managing or possessory conservator that does not expose the child
to a substantial risk of harm;
(D) failure to make a reasonable effort to
prevent an action by another person that results in physical injury
that results in substantial harm to the child;