Anne Heche’s deadly automobile crash in August left followers, family and friends members in shock. It additionally spurred a prolonged authorized battle over the actor’s property between her ex-boyfriend James Tupper and her son Homer Laffoon — who now claims the doc Tupper considers Heche’s will was cast.
Laffoon, 20, filed paperwork to imagine management over his mom’s property in early September as a result of Heche didn’t go away a will, Individuals reported. He added 9 pages to that petition on Tuesday and accused Tupper of rampant interference, Individuals mentioned, citing courtroom paperwork the outlet had obtained.
In keeping with Individuals, Laffoon’s submitting on Tuesday claims that Tupper had tried to cease him from contacting his 13-year-old half-brother, Atlas Heche Tupper, within the wake of their mom’s dying and {that a} 2011 doc supposedly giving management of Heche’s property to Tupper wasn’t genuine and that the signature on it wasn’t hers.
“Mr. Tupper repeatedly refers back to the e-mail connected to the Objection as a ‘will,’” the submitting reportedly reads. “Nevertheless — as a matter of legislation — the e-mail doesn’t qualify as both a holographic will or a proper witnessed will.”
“The e-mail fails to fulfill the authorized necessities for a legitimate holographic will as a result of the fabric provisions of the purported will usually are not within the handwriting of the Decedent,” the submitting provides, in response to Individuals.
Laffoon’s submitting additionally reportedly claims that the 2 witnesses required by legislation to look at the signing of a will had been by no means current in 2011. With out a will, the submitting states, there could be no nomination or appointment of an executor to imagine management over Heche’s property.
Laffoon and Tupper have been preventing over Heche’s belongings for weeks now. Tupper not solely claimed that Laffoon was “estranged” from his mom on the time of her dying, however filed a number of objections in opposition to his “suitability” because the property holder — which Laffoon known as “inaccurate and unfounded.”
Heche crashed right into a residential house in Los Angeles on Aug. 5 and went right into a coma after sustaining extreme accidents. She was declared legally lifeless on Aug. 12 however remained on life help whereas her organs had been eliminated for donation. She was taken off life help on Aug. 14.
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