Why Didn't Nick Reiner Ever Get The Money His Parents Promised?

Before anyone asks what happens to Rob and Michele Reiner's money, there's a harder question hiding inside this Nick Reiner case update: why didn't he ever get it while they were alive?

The trust they created for Nick as a baby promised — in writing his own petition calls "mandatory and unconditional" — that half of more than $1.5 million was his at thirty. He turned thirty more than two years before that terrible night in Brentwood. According to the petition, the money never came. Not a partial payment. Nothing. Whatever Rob and Michele knew, whatever they feared, whatever conversations happened behind the doors of that family — the people responsible for the trust kept it closed while two parents who had spent decades and a fortune trying to save their son were still here to explain why.

Now Nick, who has pleaded not guilty to killing them, is asking a court to hand over all of it — to rehire attorney Alan Jackson, and even to cover socks and soap at the jail commissary. And the community following this family's heartbreak is left holding two feelings that don't fit together: the instinct that he should never touch their money, and the knowledge that in this country, an accusation is not a conviction.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis helps us sit with both. He examines what the years of withholding tell us, whether the petition's presumed-innocence argument holds legal water, the quiet scenario where a judge could grant everything without a hearing if no one objects — and whether he, personally, would take Nick Reiner's case.

For everyone who loved Rob and Michele's work, this one is hard. We go through it together.

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