Joe Jackson’s lawyer Brian Oxman was in a Los Angeles court yesterday where a judge set May 26 as the date he will hear testimony in Joe Jackson’s request for a monthly allowance from his son’s estate. Joe said he depended on his son’s financial support for years before his death.
The executors of Michael’s estate, lawyer John Branca and former music executive John McClain, contend that Joe has not shown how he was “actually dependent” on Michael.
The estate lawyers said the expenses Joe Jackson wants covered by the estate; including vacations, air travel, assistants and legal fees, are not reasonable. They also re-emphasised that while Michael’s mother and three children were named as beneficiaries in his will, his father was not. Joe is challenging the validity of this will.
The judge overseeing probate of the will has already awarded $60,000 in monthly support for Michael’s three children and $26,000 a month for Katherine Jackson, starting from June 25, 2009, the day Michael died.
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