Nate Dogg's estate has finally been settled, and the late legend's widow and children will each receive a sizable sum in the final settlement.
Court documents obtained by radar online The final value of the estate was determined to be $2.7 million, and the administrator of the estate revealed that the funds were ordered to be divided equally between Nate's widow, LaToya Calvin, and his nine children. .
Nate Dogg was originally thought to only have six children, but a probate judge ruled that he legally had three more children.
The estate also confirmed that all of the “Nobody Does It Better” singer's debts, including an unpaid IRS bill of $144,000, have been paid off and that her survivors do not have to meet any further obligations.
The ruling ends a contentious battle over the late legend's estate.
When Nate Dogg passed away in 2011, he died intestate (that is, without a will), so there was no provision in place for the children he had with several different women.
Additionally, LaToya Calvin, the singer's wife at the time of his death, named herself the executor of his estate, and Nate's children have been fighting her in court ever since, with Nate Dogg actually divorcing Calvin for some time. He claims that he was trying to do so. he died
Nate's children filed evidence of their claims in court, revealing that the rapper filed for divorce just 19 days before his death.
However, since the divorce had not yet been finalized, Calvin was legally determined to be Nate's wife and therefore the beneficiary of the estate.
Additionally, in October, Nate Dogg's ex-girlfriend, Shereda Williams, filed a petition on her behalf in Los Angeles Superior Court to help her obtain child support for her 17-year-old son, Jayden, with Nate Dogg. I applied for mediation.
According to court documents obtained by radar onlineWilliams pointed to a petition signed by the late Hook King (real name Nathaniel Hale) in 2006 that provides $4,358 a month in child support.
But two years after Nate Dogg's death in 2011, a court ordered Williams' payments reduced to $3,000 a month. But due to what Ms. Williams calls a “court filing error,” she is at risk of losing her entire child support amount and has been forced to seek funding from her baby's father's deceased estate. She wants to take the case to court.
However, Jaden is provided for in the final estate judgment.