{"id":489374,"date":"2026-06-22T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:08:16","slug":"court-documents-reveal-liam-paynes-9-year-old-son-sole-beneficiary-of-48-million-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489374\/","title":{"rendered":"Court documents reveal Liam Payne\u2019s 9-year-old son sole beneficiary of $48 million estate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Payne\u2019s assets are valued at \u00a321.9m ($48m), which includes a five-bedroom home he had bought in 2021 to be closer to his son after his split from Tweedy. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Liam Payne and his influencer girlfriend Kate Cassidy had been living together before his death but she is not entitled to any money.\u00a0Photo \/ Stephane Cardinale \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Liam Payne and his influencer girlfriend Kate Cassidy had been living together before his death but she is not entitled to any money.\u00a0Photo \/ Stephane Cardinale \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone wishing to make a claim against the estate has six months to do so under probate rules. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Bear was born in March 2017, a few months before his parents separated in July 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Payne had been living with his influencer girlfriend Kate Cassidy before his death but she is not entitled to any money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">The Sun reports that sources close to Cassidy said she did not intend to make a claim against his estate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Cassidy had previously defended her relationship with Payne and denied she was after any of his money. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Liam Payne and his former partner, singer Cheryl Tweedy. Photo \/ Venturelli\/WireImage\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Liam Payne and his former partner, singer Cheryl Tweedy. Photo \/ Venturelli\/WireImage<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen people come and point a finger at me saying, \u2018You took an allowance and you had living expenses\u2019, or whatever, at the end of the day it\u2019s nobody\u2019s business except for me and Liam,\u201d she told The Sun last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI never [asked him for money]. Yeah, it\u2019s upsetting but it\u2019s just about having thick skin and I\u2019m never going to let anybody tell me how my relationship was with Liam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe only two people that really know how strong a relationship was are me and Liam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Payne\u2019s assets are valued at \u00a321.9m ($48m), which includes a five-bedroom home he had bought in 2021 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[117582,123311,20206,42874,430,1349,34893,156,638,9064,81346,20409,1132,111,139,69,1118,53100,21501,77366,22639],"class_list":["post-489374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-117582","tag-9yearold","tag-bear","tag-beneficiary","tag-celebrities","tag-court","tag-documents","tag-entertainment","tag-estate","tag-fathers","tag-fortune","tag-liam","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-paynes","tag-reveal","tag-sole","tag-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}