Within the wake of Anne Heche’s dying, the authorized battle between her son and her ex-husband over management of her property is heating up.
As Individuals experiences, Homer Laffoon — son of Heche and her first husband, Coley Laffoon — is disputing the validity of a doc that Heche’s second ex-husband, actor James Tupper, has claimed is her will.
In line with court docket paperwork obtained by Individuals, Laffoon’s attorneys have filed a nine-page complement to his already filed petition searching for to imagine management of his mom’s property.
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Laffoon, 20, alleges that Tupper, 57, has been blocking his makes an attempt to speak with Tupper’s 13-year-old son — and Laffoon’s half-brother.
Laffoon can be disputing {that a} 2011 doc that Tupper considers to be Heche’s will, naming the “Males in Bushes” star as administrator of the late actress’ property, is legitimate; Laffoon claims that the signature on the doc isn’t his mom’s, and was not signed within the presence of two witnesses, as required by legislation.
“Mr. Tupper repeatedly refers back to the e mail connected to the Objection as a ‘will.’ Nevertheless — as a matter of legislation — the e-mail doesn’t qualify as both a holographic will or formal witnessed will,” Laffoon’s newest authorized submitting reads. “The e-mail fails to fulfill the authorized necessities for a sound holographic will as a result of the fabric provisions of the purported will should not within the handwriting of the Decedent. A will is legitimate as a holographic will, whether or not or not it’s witnessed, if the signature and the fabric provisions are within the handwriting of the testator.”
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Laffoon’s submitting additionally contends that the so-called will “fails to satisfy the necessities for a sound holographic will as a result of the signature and materials provisions should not within the handwriting of the Decedent. The e-mail fails to fulfill the authorized necessities for a sound formal witnessed will as a result of the e-mail was not signed by the Decedent and doesn’t have two witnesses who signed the doc throughout the lifetime of the Decedent.”
In consequence, the submitting continues, “there could be no nomination of an executor” on condition that an executor “is appointed to manage an property pursuant to a sound will.”
Neither Tupper nor Laffoon have responded to Individuals‘s request for remark.