Anne Heche’s Sons Tangle in Court Over Estate: Father of 13-Year-Old Says Older Half-Brother Treats Him ‘Like His Enemy’
thewrap.comhorrific car crash in Mar Vista on Aug. 5, slipped into a coma and passed away on Aug. 12. She left no will. Heche wrote an email in 2011 to Tupper stating that should anything happen to her, she wished her assets to be divided equally between her two sons.
That email is not a legal document, however.Heche also has a 20-year-old son, Homer Laffoon, with her ex Coley Laffoon. Appearing on behalf of Laffoon via video conference was attorney Bryan Phipps.
The judge said Laffoon, as the elder son, and being over the age of 18, would likely to be appointed administrator unless proved unfit.Tupper attempted to argue that Laffoon was unqualified because of the way he has shut out his younger half-brother metaphorically and literally, by changing the locks and refusing Atlas entry into Heche’s apartment to obtain his laptop and other personal items.Bogdanoff ordered that Atlas be allowed into the apartment to retrieve his things and urged the two sides to work things out.
Tupper said, “I don’t feel his older brother is going to have [Atlas’] best interests if he’s the administrator. He’s treating [Atlas] like his enemy,” he told the judge. “If he’s the administrator of the estate their relationship is going to be [one of] hatred forever.”But Bogdanoff said that did not make the older son unqualified, stating his job as judge wasn’t to determine who is the “best person.” Rather, he said, he’s here to determine whether someone is qualified to be an administrator of the estate.
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