An attorney representing the trustee overseeing Nick Reiner’s trust is asking a judge to release $300 so he can purchase basic items behind bars while awaiting trial for the murders of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.
During a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Lauriann Wright, who represents successor trustee Jodi Pais Montgomery, requested that the relatively small amount be deposited into Nick’s jail commissary account.
Wright described the request as a “quality of life issue,” stressing that the $300 was a small amount compared to the much larger sum at the center of the ongoing legal battle.
An attorney representing the trustee overseeing Nick Reiner’s trust is asking a judge to release $300 so he can purchase basic items while behind bars. (Pictured: Reiner in February 2026)
The request comes as Nick awaits trial for the murders of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, pictured above in December 2013. michelereiner/Instagram
A source sketch from Friday’s hearing, which Nick did not attend. Bill Robles
The request comes as the 33-year-old continues fighting for access to approximately $1.5 million held in the Nick Reiner Children’s Trust, which was established by his late parents in 1993.
As Page Six previously reported, Nick’s attorneys claimed in September that he had not received “even $5” from the trust to purchase basic necessities while incarcerated.
His lawyers argue that he was entitled to receive half of the trust’s assets when he turned 30 in September 2023, more than two years before his parents’ death.
According to court filings, at least $558,000 was due to Nick — who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia — at the time, his attorneys claimed.
However, Wright previously argued that California’s Slayer Statute prevents Nick from accessing the funds because he has been charged with murdering his parents.
Nick’s attorneys, Anita P. Wu and Geoffrey A. Neri, claimed in September that he had not received “even $5” from the trust to purchase basic necessities while incarcerated. (Pictured: Nick with his criminal pubic defender Kimberly Greene.) Reuters
Nick’s lawyers argue that he was entitled to receive half of the trust’s assets when he turned 30 in September 2023, more than two years before his parents’ death. (Pictured: Nick and Rob in September 2015) michelereiner/Instagram
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Per Justia Law, the statute prevents a “person who feloniously and intentionally kills the decedent” from gaining access to “property, interest, or benefit under a will of the decedent, or a trust created by or for the benefit of the decedent.”
Wright also argued that releasing the funds before Nick’s criminal case is resolved could be “irreversible,” and that his share of the trust should instead go to his siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner.
Nick’s attorneys have pushed back, arguing that the funds were owed to him years before his parents were killed and therefore should not be subject to the statute.
The dispute has also affected Nick’s efforts to hire private criminal defense counsel.
His former attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the murder case in January, leaving Nick represented by Los Angeles county public defender Kimberly Greene. Reuters
Nick has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents, pictured above in September 2025, at their Brentwood home. The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images
His former attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the murder case in January, leaving Nick represented by Los Angeles county public defender Kimberly Greene.
The larger dispute over the trust funds remains unresolved.
Nick has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood home.
He remains behind bars without bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.