A lawyer representing the trustee overseeing Nick Reiner’s trust is asking a judge to release $300 so he can buy basic items behind bars while awaiting trial for the murders of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.
At a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Lauriann Wright, who represents successor administrator Jodi Pais Montgomery, requested that the relatively small amount be deposited into Nick’s prison commissioner’s account.
Wright described the request as a “quality of life issue,” noting that the $300 amount was a small amount compared to the much larger sum at the center of the ongoing legal battle.
The request comes as the 33-year-old continues to struggle to access approximately $1.5 million held in the Nick Reiner Children’s Trust, established by his late parents in 1993.
As Page Six previously reported, Nick’s lawyers claimed in September that he did not receive “even $5” from the trust to purchase necessities while incarcerated.
His lawyers argue that he was entitled to receive half of the trust’s assets when he turned 30 in September 2023, more than two years before his parents died.
According to court filings, at least $558,000 was owed to Nick – who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia – at the time, his lawyers claimed.
However, Wright previously argued that California’s killer law prevented Nick from accessing the funds because he had been accused of murdering his parents.
According to the Justia Law, the law prevents a “person who criminally and intentionally kills the deceased” from accessing “any property, interest or benefit under a will of the deceased, or a trust created by or for the benefit of the deceased.”
Wright also argued that releasing the funds before Nick’s criminal case is resolved could be “irreversible” and that his share of the trust should instead go to his siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner.
Nick’s lawyers pushed back, arguing that the funds were owed to him years before his parents were killed and therefore should not be subject to the law.
The dispute also affected Nick’s efforts to hire a private criminal defense attorney.
His former attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the murder case in January, leaving Nick represented by Los Angeles County public defender Kimberly Greene.
The broader dispute over trust funds remains unresolved.
Nick has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents at their Brentwood home.
He remains behind bars without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Center in Los Angeles and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
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