Perspective
Apr. 10, 2010
Probate Battle Reaches End
After 15 years of wasteful litigation and real-life soap opera, the fight over J. Howard Marshall II's estate by Anna Nicole Smith's attorneys appears to be over, writes Janice Brenman.
After 15 years of wasteful litigation and real-life soap opera, the case of Marshall v. Marshall appears to finally be over. On March 19, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Texas probate court as the court of record, which ruled that J. Howard Marshall II provided for Anna Nicole Smith while he was alive and his will clearly left his estate to his youngest son, E. Pierce Marshall. This marked the end of a long and wi...
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