Nick Reiner has not received “even $5” from a family trust that lists him as its sole beneficiary, as he awaits trial in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Nick has been held without bail at Los Angeles’ Twin Towers Correctional Facility since December 2025. During that time, he has repeatedly asked to access the trust, which is valued at approximately $1.6 million.
His parents created the “Nick Reiner Children’s Trust Dated December 2, 1993,” according to People.
In two legal filings dated Thursday, Nick’s attorneys, Anita P. Wu and Geoffrey A. Neri, addressed objections raised by successor trustee Jodi Pais Montgomery and former trustee Paul R. Kanin. They said their client has been unable to “access even $5 from his trust” to buy basic items through the jail commissary.
The lawyers also claimed that attempts to obtain “money that is lawfully his own” have been stalled, preventing Nick from hiring new criminal defense counsel.
Wu and Neri cited the trust’s “Age-30 Distribution” provision, arguing that it entitled Nick to receive a significant portion of the funds once he reached the specified age.
“Nick turned 30 on September 14, 2023. By the Successor Trustee’s own calculation, at least $558,000 became due and payable to him that day. His parents were alive. No one had accused him of anything,” the attorneys wrote in the filing, according to People.
His attorneys further contended that California’s “slayer statute,” previously cited by the trustees as grounds for denying him access to the trust, does not cover money that became his before his parents died.
“The ‘slayer statute,’ the sole remaining basis for withholding this money, takes away what a person receives as a result of someone’s death. It does not implicate money that became Nick’s years earlier,” the filing stated.
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Nick filed a petition in June asserting that he was entitled to receive half of the trust “outright when he turned 30.” The remaining half, according to court documents obtained by Page Six, would be distributed when he reached 35.
A judge blocked his request to access the trust in August after the trustees invoked California’s “slayer statute.”
Lauriann Wright, an attorney for Montgomery, argued that the law would require Nick’s share of the trust to pass instead to his siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner.
While Nick remains presumed innocent as he awaits trial, Wright argued that giving him the funds now would be “irreversible.”
Nick, who would not be eligible for the death penalty if convicted in his parents’ deaths, appeared before Judge Sam Ohta on Tuesday. Page Six reported that no members of his family attended the hearing.
His aunt, Annie Reiner, was notably absent, despite having previously appeared in court in support of her nephew.
Rob and Michele Reiner were fatally stabbed at their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14, 2025. They were 78 and 70 years old, respectively.
Nick was first identified as a person of interest before being arrested in connection with his parents’ deaths.