Jury decides Aretha Franklin's 2014 handwritten will is valid

Lawyers for Kecalf and Edward Franklin, two of the singer's sons, said that the 2014 papers were in couch cushions did not make them less significant.




Jul 11, 2023




PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons against each other.




It's a victory for Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin whose lawyers had argued that papers dated 2014 should override a 2010 will that was discovered around the same time in a locked cabinet at the Queen of Soul's home in suburban Detroit.... Read more


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