Estate, Estate Dispute | featured news

More than three years after Michael Jackson's death, his youngest brother continues to raise questions about the validity of the pop superstar's will. On Twitter and cable TV, Randy Jackson has called the five-page document signed in 2002 a fake. The one place he hasn't made the claims is a courtroom, where legal experts say he faces almost insurmountable hurdles to invalidate the will and stiff odds against ousting the men who run the lucrative estate.

Artist Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend says two handwritten wills entitle her to his home and $10 million, but his estranged wife has a different take. Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light™, spent his last two years legally separated from his wife of nearly three decades and struggling with alcoholism.

A ruling by the Supreme Court favors heirs of billionaire J. Howard Marshall, the late husband of Anna Nicole Smith. Justices say a Texas probate court, rather than a California bankruptcy judge, had the authority to resolve the Marshall estate dispute.