Via: WRAL.com
Michael Jackson’s father does not stand to inherit any of his son’s assets and cannot challenge the appointment of the executors chosen by the singer to handle his will, a judge said Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said Joe Jackson was not named in the will but could pursue a motion to receive a family allowance from the estate. Joe Jackson and his son had an often-strained relationship, and Michael Jackson said at one point that he would get physically sick – as a child and as an adult – at the sight of his father. Earlier in the hearing, Michael Jackson’s mother withdrew her objections to the appointment of two longtime Jackson associates as executors of his will. The surprise announcement came from Katherine Jackson’s new probate attorney Adam Streisand, who said his client felt it was time for the legal battle to end over the appointment of attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain to oversee the estate
