Kellie Pickler in Court Battle With Late Husband Kyle Jacobs’ Parents Over His Belongings
American Idol alum Kellie Pickler has found herself in a tense court battle with the parents of her late husband, Kyle Jacobs, regarding personal property belonging to the late country singer.
According to inTouch, Pickler filed a petition against Reed and Sharon Jacobs, who are listed as the co-administrators of Kyle’s estate. The petition, which was filed on August 16, reads, “A dispute has arisen amongst the parties regarding certain personal property allegedly in [Kyle’s] possession prior to his death,” per Us Weekly.
The petition claims that Reed and Sharon created a document titled “List of Assets,” in which they demanded via subpoena that Pickler hand over various items belonging to Kyle, including his gun collection, watches and jewelry, baseball card collection, musical instruments, personal devices, and other items.
Pickler claims she does not have some of the items and others are in dispute regarding ownership. She also alleges that Kyle’s parents took items from Pickler’s home without telling her.
“As part of this action, Ms. Pickler seeks an order requiring the co-administrators to identify the items that they obtained from her home,” the petition reads.
Pickler, who rose to fame on the fifth season of American Idol before launching a successful singing career, began dating Kyle in 2008. The former couple married in 2011 and, in 2015, starred in a 13-episode reality show for CMT entitled I Love Kellie Pickler.
Kyle died by suicide on February 17, 2023. He was 49 years old.
Reed and Sharon have disputed Picker’s claims that she didn’t know the whereabouts of some of the items or that they didn’t have the right to them. In a petition of their own, Kyle’s parents admit to entering Pickler’s home but “at the express invitation of [Pickler] and her counsel whom they met to discuss the transfer of items belonging to the estate.”
The Jacobs are requesting Pickler’s petition be dismissed. Meanwhile, Pickler has been granted a protective order preventing either party from sharing the transcript or video of her deposition. Reed and Sharon are also objecting to that order, which they filed on November 7.
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She was his wife. She should get everything unless he had a will saying otherwise.
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I don't understand-she was his wife, shouldn't she inherit his things?
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She was his wife, I know the parents are hurting, but so is she the love of her life , seems she can’t catch a break from pain and heartbreak, parents should be ashamed treating her this way, just move on and let her do the same keep his memories in your heart not out of hatred and remorse,
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The woman lost her husband and your battling her over material things. I think they should leave her alone.
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She is/was his wife. Unless he left a will the assets become hers. Shameful of his parents being money grabbing his assets. He trusted his parents to do the right thing.
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Why do people have to be so greedy like his parents are being. She lost her husband in the worst possible way and they are acting like this they don't care and should be very ashamed of themselves.
My Mom had an almost similiar situation when her sister died in 2004, her sister lived in Florida while Mom lived her in PA with us, now she lives inAlaska, and when her sister died the sisters live in boyfriend refused to allow Mom to have my aunts possesions, even when Mom volunteered do travel down and get them. She thought about taking him to court but my aunt didn't have a will pluse Mom had just paid a lot of money for my aunts body to be transferred to NY from Florida and paid for the funeral services and burial, she maxed out a couple of credit cards to do it, so she couldn't really afford the legal fees.
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Sound like they think they should have everything he own but the should be Kelly’s she should have the right if she wanted to give them to her.Soulf like greed
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When they took things out of the house that his grief stricken wife lived at, they got all that are going to get!!
She was his wife and they built their life together.
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I have no idea what made this man commit suicide, but his parents could not have changed to be this evil after his death, I feel there was some ugliness in his childhood! I am an Estate Appraiser, I have worked with some wicked people, but this couple has to be the most wicked!! It would not look like greed if they maybe asked for (A) gun they gave him for Christmas 15 years ago or personal items they maybe gifted to their late son! Another bell ringer is, why was the parents were made co-administrators? The man was 49 years old, they had been together for 15 years, she was his wife, I also do not know what type of work he did, but it seems to me from what is known about them, the money was mostly generated by Kelly. I am sure some of the money for the items most likely came from Kelly. Last but certainly not the least in the states I worked in, any item removed from the estate without the knowledge of the home owner is considered stealing, and if proved, can be punished by law. Again the items or really the circumstances of the removed items was not clearly stated.
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When people die everyone gets greedy and as you can see, it happens in every family. It seems like the wife should be the one to get her husband's assets and not the family, but I don't know all the circumstances here either.
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Greedy, money hungry in-laws it's just sad that they have to harass their son's wife like this.
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Those things belong to Kellie. If she wants the parents to have some things they should sit down and agree on some stuff, but mostly anything he had during their marriage should be hers.
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How awful for the to even take things from her house. She is his wife. It’s sad they just try to take over. Greed taking over. So very sad.
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No wonder he had a drinking problem with parents like that!
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What is the reason the parents want these things. If their son is seeing what they are doing to his wife, they should be ashamed. Bad karma can only come out of this for them!
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Shame on his greedy parents. They are entitled to nothing. She is his wife of 12 years and she should get everything.
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I think it’s sad the parents are being the way they are. The parents need to stop the lawsuit and move on with their lives and let Kelly move on with her life. This isn’t going to bring their son back. The parents question why Kelly is defending herself in court. Kelly’s only doing what they are doing. I don’t know why these cases are even allowed in court, if the spouse had nothing to do with the suicide of the husband. I pray these parents stop this!
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Not totally true, where you say all get greedy, and happens in all families, when mom died (7 yrs after our dad), there was no problems amongst my only sister and 8 brothers, the 10 of us were normal and not greedy!
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You entered her home?? That is HIS wife choosen family she is in mourning yet although I am sure you are in pain as well show some Grace and dignity. You are fighting over " things" you can't bring your son back but you can alienate your daughter in law. Think of your son...his wife...privacy and just how little things are.
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