Can Nick Reiner Still Inherit $50 Million? The California Loophole That Could Let Him Profit From Rob and Michele Reiner's Deaths

The Slayer Statute is supposed to be simple. You kill someone, you don't inherit from them. But California law has language that creates an exception — and a 1979 case proves it works.

Estate of Ladd involved a mother who killed her two sons. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Her ex-husband argued she should be barred from inheriting under the Slayer Statute. The California Court of Appeal disagreed. The ruling: an NGRI verdict does not constitute a conviction, and insanity negates the "intentional" requirement in Probate Code Section 250. She inherited from the children she killed.

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