A Pontiac, Mich., jury deliberated for less than an hour after a brief trial that started Monday involving a dispute among Aretha Franklin’s children about the validity to a will dated 2010 and another dated 2014. After the verdict favoring the handwritten 2014 will was read, Ms. Franklin’s grandchildren stepped forward from the first row to hug Kecalf and Edward Franklin, two of the late singer’s sons.
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Jury decides 2014 document found in Aretha Franklin’s couch is a valid will
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.
