Gary Coleman Will Online

TMZ has obtained and posted a copy of the 1999 Will appointing Dion Mial executor of Gary’s estate, directing his “personal representative” to allow no members of the press at his wake.

Gary Coleman’s 1999 Last Will and Testament is now online and states that Coleman did not want anyone at his wake or funeral who could not look his personal representative in the eye and say he or she really cared about him.

This is a very sad and unusual thing to include in a Will. Ordinarily, people don’t put funeral directions in their Wills, but leave instructions in a separate letter for the executor. It is also pretty weird that the Will names Mial the Executor in the first paragraph, but speaks about a personal representative controlling the events surrounding Coleman being laid to rest after his death. Just an odd switch-up in language.

Also missing from the two-page document is a self-proving affidavit, which would dispense with the need to locate the witnesses who signed their names attesting that Gary Coleman signed the Will in their presence and in the presence of each other, and it is usually customary for the testator (the person making the Will) to sign their initials on any page that doesn’t have their signature on it. There is also a typo on the first page, referring to Coleman as “Gary W. Goleman” but none of these things will automatically invalidate this 1999 document.

Utah Lawyer Tells Why Shannon’s Codicil May Be Worthless

Only a later Codicil or Will can do that. And Shiela Erickson, ex-manager of Coleman and current representative for Shannon Price says she has a handwritten codicil and has hired a “high power” attorney to defend Ms. Price. But RadarOnline was told by Dion Mial’s attorney, Kent Alderman, that the codicil was null and void. Another Utah attorney they spoke to, Stephen J. Buhler claimed that “the act of getting divorced would revoke that will.” and also said, “Unless she could show something that stated he intended to leave everything to her even after the divorce, the will is null and void.”

He explained that there is “at least a presumption that once you get divorced you don’t intend on leaving everything to that person anymore.”

But he does not explain how the court looks on it when the divorced couple are actually living together and letting people believe they are still married. They may have been technically divorced but they were living together and Coleman did not express any fear of Shannon, but gave her the written power to make decisions over his life at a time that he was surely advised he was in grave condition.

The real question here is why are all these people throwing Shannon Price under the bus? Dion Mial was not in contact with Gary Coleman for years before his death. We don’t know when the last time Todd Bridges even saw or talked to Gary was, but if they were such good friends of Gary and Shannon was the despicable harpy and golddigger they are now trying make her out to be, why didn’t they intervene before?

Screen Actors Guild Huge Secret Pension

Todd Bridges has also given an interview saying that Gary Coleman may not have had any money when he died, but he had a “HUGE SECRET” PENSION from the Screen Actors Guild potentially worth millions. Bridges said his own pension was $150,000-a-year for the rest of his life, beginning at age of 55 and he figures Gary Coleman’s would be worth more. Todd Bridges has also made statements that the trust the 1999 Will is based on gives a lot of money to charity and Dion Mial is the trustee. Todd uses the word “we” a lot when he is talking about Coleman’s estate as if he has some role in the administration of the estate and he somehow seems to know that Dion Mial will handle everything the right way.

Well, when that includes throwing the woman Gary was living with out of her own home, we’re not impressed.

When you stop to think about it, the person that really was with Gary Coleman when he was down and out was Shannon Price — not Dion Mial and not Todd Bridges. The Gary Coleman estate mess is beginning to sound something like what happened after the Godfather of Soul, James Brown died on Christmas Day back in 2006.