Alan's eldest sons, Brennan and Robin, file a petition in L.A. Supreme Court, claiming that his wife Tanya Callau is trying to annul the prenuptial agreement.
- May 17, 2017
AceShowbiz - Brennan and Robin Thicke, the eldest sons of the late Alan Thicke, are taking his wife Tanya Callau to court after Callau allegedly threatened them with bad press if she didn't get a larger portion of Alan's estate. The sons filed a petition in L.A. Supreme Court on Tuesday, May 16, and claimed that Callau was trying to annul the prenuptial agreement she signed.
Brennan and Robin are the co-trustees of Alan's living trust. They filed the petition in order to "honor the memory of their father, protect his legacy, and prevent his testamentary intentions from being undermined by avarice and overreaching of his third wife, Tanya Callau."
According to the petition, the former "Growing Pains" star updated his trust in February 2016. Alan divided the ownership of his ranch equally among his three sons. He also left them 75|percent| of his personal effects and 60|percent| of his remaining estate. Alan left Callau the ranch's furnishings, 25|percent| of his personal effects, a $500,000 life insurance policy, all of his death benefits from pensions and union memberships and 40|percent| of his remaining estate. The trust provided that Callau could continue living at the ranch as long as she paid the full cost of its expenses and maintained the property.
Callau had signed a prenuptial agreement prior to their marriage in 2005, but she insisted that there were problems in the agreement after her husband's death. Alex Weingarten, Brennan and Robin's attorney, said that she "threatened to make her claims fodder for 'tabloid publicity' unless the Co-Trustees agreed to participate in a mediation and succumb to her demands." He wrote in the petition, "Now that Alan is dead, Tanya claims there are numerous problems with the Trust and the Prenuptial Agreement."
Weingarten then added that Tanya thought she deserved larger portion since she sacrificed her career in order to raise Alan's third son, Carter. "Tanya also claims 'Marvin rights' asserting that she had to forgo opportunities to pursue and advance her own career in order to support Alan and be his companion and partner, including raising Carter," he stated.
According to Weingarten, the Thickes originally didn't plan to take the matter to court. "My clients made every effort to resolve this without the need for going to court," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "The only thing they care about is protecting the legacy of their father and honoring his intentions. That is exactly what we are going to do."
Meanwhile, Callau's attorney, Adam Streisand, stated that she never tried to threaten the family. "Tanya Thicke has never threatened to take private family matters public and she never has," he told the website. "It is clear that Alan’s sons have chosen this distasteful public smear tactic to bully Tanya, by stirring up the tabloid media, filing a bogus lawsuit, and refusing family mediation."
Alan Thicke died of heart attack last December.
