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Late Comedian Robin Williams' Wife And Three Children Involved In Court Dispute

Robin Williams escorts wife Susan Schneider

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Robin Williams' widow, Susan and his three children have entered into a legal dispute over the late actor's estate and other personal properties involved, Entertainment Weekly reports.

The dispute initially stemmed from the two houses Williams owned at the time of his demise. One house is located in Napa Valley and one in Tiburon, California.

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In Susan's filing, she considered the house in Tiburon her "abode".

This trust was amended last 2010, before their marriage in 2011, thus granting her the Tiburon home and its contents upon Williams' death.

Susan filed the papers, which stated that some of the late actor's personal belongings in their home were whisked away without her permission.  

Susan also explained that a few days after her husband's death, trustees started to gather the late comedian's property and even informed her a few weeks later that they would come back to gather the remaining items, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

"The co-trustees had keys to her home. Naturally, Mrs. Williams became frightened of the co-trustees invading her home," reads the petition, which was filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

After that precipitating event, Susan requested the court to exclude the items in Williams' Tiburon home in the overall grouping of items the late actor left to his children, according to the Associated Press.

Williams' widow filed the petition last December for the court's interpretation of the trust. 

The late actor's three children, Zachary, Cody and Zelda opposed Susan's desire to change the agreement.  

The children also filed a dispute in January 21, stating Susan's accusation in a different perspective. They claim that gathering and inventorying their late father's property is part of the trust's execution.

The children also indicted Mrs. Williams of holding them off for almost three months while "at the same time permitting various third parties to access the residence on her own behalf to appraise certain trust assets."

There will be a hearing schedule this coming March 30 in the Superior Court of Marin County in California, a place where the Tiburon home is closely located.

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