Nick Reiner Might Get Access to His Trust Sooner Rather Than Later
Nick Reiner has been sitting in a Los Angeles County jail since December 2025. The 32-year-old aspiring filmmaker stands accused of stabbing his mother and father to death in their Brentwood home. While his case has been slow-moving so far, there has been some progress in his bid to access his trust fund to mount a defense. He appears to be one step closer to having part of an established trust released, a payout that would be enough to fund a top-tier defense, and it seems there is already a lawyer he has his eye on for the job.
Nick Reiner has been trying to access his trust fund
Nick Reiner’s previous counsel, Alan Jackson, stepped down from the murder case in January after funding for the 32-year-old’s defense never materialized. Since then, the middle child of Rob and Michele Reiner has been trying to reach funds he says are rightfully his, money held in a trust that his late parents fully funded.
According to several sources, each of the Reiner children has an independently funded trust. The terms call for 50% of the assets to be disbursed when the beneficiary turns 30, and the remaining half when they turn 35. By that timeline, Nick’s first payout should have been released in 2023, when he turned 30. Concerns surrounding his competency and conservatorship likely led to the money being held back. According to The New York Times, the younger Reiner was in a mental health conservatorship through 2020.
Now, at 32, his legal team argues that the money belongs to him and that the trustee has no grounds to withhold the portion that should have been paid out years earlier. Many people believe California’s “Slayer Statute” may bar Nick from accessing his trust, but invoking that statute is complicated. In most cases, it applies only after a conviction has been secured. Reiner is merely accused of his parents’ murders; he has not been convicted.
The funds might be released soon
Nick Reiner’s battle over the trust has only become headline news in recent days, but it appears the effort has been underway for some time. Now, there has been a major development that could free up the money sooner rather than later. According to TMZ, the trustee overseeing Nick’s trust fund, Jodi Montgomery, plans to file court paperwork as soon as next week asking a judge to approve Reiner’s petition and release the funds to him. She will not fight the request.
A judge will still have the final say on whether to hand over the money while Nick sits in jail awaiting trial, though that feels almost like a formality at this point. The trustee formally backing the petition removes a major obstacle that had been holding up the disbursement, and the outcome will largely dictate Nick’s defense. The funding dispute is what led Alan Jackson to withdraw from the case. Nick is currently represented by a public defender. Jackson has said he wants back in if the financial issue can be resolved. If the money does end up in Reiner’s hands, we assume that is the first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWt3ZU6vACE&pp=ygUYYWxhbiBqYWNrc29uIG5pY2sgcmVpbmVycall he will make.
Nick’s siblings, Romy and Jake Reiner, have not spoken publicly about the dispute, though both were named as the guarantors who agreed to fund his defense before pulling their support. Jake wrote openly about the loss of his parents in a haunting, eloquently written Substack essay, without mentioning the brother accused of the killings. Romy, the youngest of Rob and Michele’s children, has opted not to speak yet.
