Usually, a slayer statute question is straightforward because the person accused of the killing is also the person named to inherit. This one may not be. Nick Reiner has asked a Los Angeles probate court for access to a Trust his parents created for him when he was a baby, and the distribution he seeks reportedly came due before they died. That timing raises a harder question than the headlines suggest, while also reminding us of something far more ordinary that every Estate Plan should address. Read on to learn more.
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