A financial dispute between the widow and the children of Oscar winner Robin Williams, who died of suicide last year, has heated up ahead of a deadline for the two sides to resolve their differences, according to court papers.
Attorneys for the comic great's children Zachary, Zelda and Cody, in papers filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, said his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, was trying to unjustly increase a reserve fund dedicated to all recurring costs associated with the home where she had lived with Williams.
A judge in San Francisco delayed until June a hearing on a suit filed in December by Susan Schneider, with whom the comedian and movie star had been married for five years when he committed suicide in August of last year at the age of 63.
Schneider's attorney, James Wagstaffe, told AFP at the time that over the next two weeks he would meet with Williams' three children from two previous marriages - Zelda, Zachary and Cody Williams - to try to reach an agreement.
If this fails a mediator will intervene, he said.
The deadline was June, when the battle could reach court and become public.
The dispute centers on objects related to the actor's career, his childhood and objects from his office, except the furniture that was in the house he shared with his now widow.
The movie awards that Williams won, such as his Oscar, would be worth a lot of money to his children, the attorney said.
-Reuters, AFP
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