Trouble With The Family In The Heath Ledger Estate

Posted on March 19th, 2008 in Heath Ledger

Oh boy, looks like there’s trouble with the Ledger family feuding over Heath Ledger’s estate.  I thought this situation was going to go smoothly.  What a shame.

Heath’s uncles are speaking out against his father Kim’s handling of the late actors assets, saying Kim has a bad track record of estate management.

Ledger’s father so mishandled the management of their grandfather’s estate 15 years ago in Australia that Kim was removed as executor, the uncles claim.

“It plunged into enormous debt,” Mike Ledger, one of Kim’s brothers, tells PEOPLE.

Heath died in January at age 28 of an accidental mixture of prescription drugs – leaving behind a daughter, Matilda, by his ex, actress Michelle Williams. As we all know by now, his will was written before his relationship with Williams and leaves everything to his parents and sisters.

Ledger’s uncle Mike insists the family has nothing to gain by removing Kim: “Our only vested interest is to assure that Matilda is well looked after.”

Mike added that Kim’s recent statement that Matilda “will be taken care of” was not enough assurance. “When you are talking about large sums of money like this,” he says, “it should be an independent executor, but Kim hasn’t chosen that way.”

It sucks so bad that money does this to families.

WENN