The death of Brittany Murphy has raised all sorts of questions about her life, but one I keep hearing over and over is “Who the hell was that Simon Monjack dude she was married to?” What can I say? I hang out with eloquent people. According to several stories over the past couple days, many suspected that Simon was broke and partially in to Brittany because she brought some money to the family. However, today it was revealed that he was not written in to her will. Instead, Brittany’s beloved mother Sharon Murphy will be the beneficiary of her estate.
Brittany was only 32 years old when she passed, so it’s quite possible that her will was drawn up before her marriage to Simon and not redone after their marriage because well, she wasn’t expecting to die. While wills can be revised after death, it doesn’t seem likely that Simon will be able to make claims on any of her money or her home.
Hopefully Brittany’s mother has a firm grasp on the nature of their relationship and will be able to decide what happens with her daughter’s money in a way that will pay respect to what Brittany would have wanted. While I’m sure we’re not talking major money, it would be a whole ‘nother Anna Nicole situation if Simon attempted to get his hands on his late wife’s assets. Something tells me that between lawyers, accountants, advisers and family, if Brittany wanted to make sure Simon got her money, she would have been on top of that.
Usually state law provides for a spouse’s share, especially in the event that the marriage occured after the date the will was writeen. This is actually a mess. Her mother will likely claim Brittany intended her to get it all, while husband will say the will is null and void because of her subsequent marriage. Also, because CA is a community property state there will be issues of community property allocation as well. Sad.
Does anyone know the salary range of voiceover work for series regulars? You always hear about The Simpsons, but I wonder what type of money almost a decade on The Family Guy brings.
And I hope her mom gets every cent.
You mean King of the Hill… She didn’t do Family Guy.
Absolutely right. I was on autopilot. Thanks
He has incredibly white feet.
In most states, dower interest laws make the surviving spouse entitled to 1/3 of the deceased’s estate. It’s typically impossible to completely disinherit a spouse.
I wonder what it’s like to be as pretty as she was.
Looks like she made the right choice. Seems like he is moving right along.
They were married less than 3 years, she supported him or got him small paid gigs on her movies as a gofer type person, on the last feature he was her personal makeup artist, right. Anyway all he can ask for is a small portion of her earnings during the time they were married. She may have paid a vast amount of money to get him out of financial trouble which her mom could ask the courts to offset. Unless her will was changed to include him I doubt he’s going to walk away with much of the estate. That depends on just how good he is at manipulating the situation, and what the true nature of Brittany and Simon’s relationship was. If mom gives him the boot it probably was what most people think it was, which breaks my heart for Brittany – she deserved much more including a longer life. I hope her mother has retained a great attorney to protect herself in any case.
Looks like he gets half
Except as provided in Section 21611, if a decedent fails to
provide in a testamentary instrument for the decedent’s surviving
spouse who married the decedent after the execution of all of the
decedent’s testamentary instruments, the omitted spouse shall receive
a share in the decedent’s estate, consisting of the following
property in said estate:
(a) The one-half of the community property that belongs to the
decedent under Section 100.
(b) The one-half of the quasi-community property that belongs to
the decedent under Section 101.
(c) A share of the separate property of the decedent equal in
value to that which the spouse would have received if the decedent
had died without having executed a testamentary instrument, but in no
event is the share to be more than one-half the value of the
separate property in the estate.
@Markus I get your drift on where you were going there. I often think of my past and use it as a means to analyze where I am and where I want to get to. Where I struggel is balancing it all out. How do you guys balance things out?
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