The singer, who died five years ago at 76 years old, left no formal will but hand-scrawled documents discovered later in her home fuelled a dispute among her four sons for years.
A handwritten document found in Aretha Franklin's couch cushion is a valid will determining the late Queen of Soul's wishes, a Michigan jury found on Tuesday , according to the local Detroit Free Press newspaper.–
The difficult to read papers appear to distribute assets including real estate, jewellery, furs, stereo equipment and music royalties to her family members. Two of her sons, Edward and Kecalf Franklin, favoured the 2014 paper. Another, Ted White Jr, says the 2010 document in the cabinet is more legitimate.The New York Times said that Clarence Franklin, the singer's first-born child, has a mental illness and lives under a court-appointed guardian, and that his brothers have agreed to support him.
Of significant focus in the trial was on a signature on the 2014 document, which said"A Franklin" and included a smiley face in the first initial, which Kecalf Franklin testified was"characteristic" of his mother's writing.
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