Anne Heche‘s ex-husband James Tupper has filed paperwork in court docket to develop into the authorized guardian of their 13-year-old son, Atlas Heche Tupper.
In line with new authorized paperwork, obtained by ET, the 57-year-old actor filed a “petition for appointment of Guardian Advert Litem.” He’s additionally filed a “Discover of Intent to File Objections to Homer Heche Laffoon‘s Petition for Letters of Administration and Competing Probate Petition.”
Within the docs, Tupper states Atlas “has no guardian of his property” and that he’s Atlas’ father and “solely residing father or mother.” What’s extra, Tupper says he “loves each Homer and Atlas as a father and needs the most effective for them each.” And “to be able to protect household concord and a wholesome, brotherly relationship between Atlas and Homer, and given the complexity this property will foreseeably contain, a bonded, impartial, non-public skilled fiduciary could be a extra applicable administrator.”
The primary listening to on issues of the property is scheduled for Oct. 11.
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Tupper and Homer have been at odds over who ought to management Heche’s property since she died again in August following a fiery automobile crash within the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Heche and Coley Laffoon have been married from 2001 to 2009 and are dad and mom to Homer, 20. Heche and Tupper dated for greater than a decade earlier than they break up in 2018. They met in 2006 after they co-starred in “Males in Bushes”.
Following her loss of life, Homer filed court docket docs in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, asking to be made the administrator of his late mother’s property. Along with management of the property, Homer requested to be made guardian advert litem over Atlas. As a result of Atlas is a minor, Homer requested that the court docket waive the bond.
Not lengthy after, Tupper requested the court docket to as a substitute appoint a impartial third occasion non-public skilled fiduciary or, alternately, himself as executor of her property.
Within the docs, James claimed that the late actress made her intentions clear in a private e mail on Jan. 25, 2011, with the topic line “WILL,” saying, “In case I die tomorrow and anybody asks. My needs are that every one of my property go to the management of Mr. James Tupper for use to lift my youngsters after which given to the youngsters. They are going to be divided equally amongst our kids, at present Homer Heche Laffoon and Atlas Heche Tupper, and their portion given to every when they’re the age of 25.”
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Tupper went on to argue that there’s “no pressing must appoint a particular administrator presently” and that Homer is “not appropriate for appointment” because of his age and that he’s presently unemployed. James additionally alleges that Homer and his mom have been estranged on the time of her loss of life, “because of his dropping out of college research and never working to help himself.”
Homer later fired again, saying in court docket docs that he’s “not disqualified from serving as administrator of the Property,” noting that “necessities pertaining to employment historical past or standing, instructional background, or prior expertise administering probate estates” are usually not grounds for disqualification.
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