Jim Reeves' music royalties at issue in trial

It might be worth noting that in Jims original will he specifies that any money in his estate was to be left to his Mother and his wife Mary. Jim also wanted to leave money to also create a Foundation that would support up and coming performers new to the business. Nowhere did he ever express that any monies be left to any of his brothers or sisters neices or whatever.So the people who were fighting over his estate were never intended by jim to recieve anything. Sadly, Jims wishes were never respected for whatever reason of which i do not know.

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go

Jim Reeves, a great singer that people who detested country could like.

30 yrs. Is a long time. also that is what she left him. What did she leave these two?

Where there's a will there's a relative!

Completely unrelated to this non-sense, but when I visited India about a year ago, I found out that he's still popular there. With a fan club and everything. Thought it was odd and great at the same time.

You'd think that she surely drew up a will and had all the proper paperwork on file...if that's the case, seems to me the niece and nephew may be in the wrong here, depending on what the will says.....I just went through a similar problem after my mother passed....other family members felt they had a claim...she had written her will long ago and never changed it, and I am her only survivor, I have no living siblings.....it's sad to say that what "they" say is true...somebody dies and people come out of the woodwork looking for their piece of the action....whether they have a valid point to stand on or not...

If she wanted him to have it after living with him for 30 years, he probably deserved it. It was hers to leave to whomever she chose, and that should be the end of it.

All I can say is what a great singer Jim Reeves was, I still enjoy his music today, I'm sure a lot more money has been made off of his songs then what he ever seen while he lived, greed is a way of life for some people, what a shame.

Jim Reeves. I love his songs. I am sorry he and his wife are still being exploited. I hope someone puts him on a Country Legend part two CD or allows free downloads and saves to the media I decide to use for Mr. Reeves, Lee Greenwood, and when I think or see others I will make a note to post later.

If he was married to he rfor 30 years he should be her primary beneficiary unless she left a will stating otherwise. He was her husband longer than Jim was. If Bill gates died and i married his widow I would expect to be her lover, husband, beneficiary, financial adviser, lover, and inherit everything equal with the kids. Well maybe after 30 yrears i would be entitled to 3/4s or all if she choose. I mean her money not what was left to the kids. She would be entitled to all of my property, cash, or other valuables if I went first. So what's the difference.

Shameful.

I wonder how this would play out If Mr. Davis Family's was the Source of the Money and Mr. Davis Died. Now the widow of 30 Years wants the inheirtance, Would Mr. Davis relatives have claim on the Money over the Widow's? I think Not!

The wife, Mary, managed the songs and image of Jim Reeves as a source of revenue for her and her new husband. The songs belonged to her. What she built out of them belongs to the man who was married to her for 30 years. Had she wanted the niece and nephew to have anything, she should have left it in a will. When I die, I expect my fortune that I built to go to my husband who in turn will distribute it how he sees fit at his passing and vice versa.

Greed!

This is completely pitiful. Arguing over a " Dead Man's " money.

So something a second husband or wife has no rights? How stupid.

My take on this is the second husband wants money from Jim Reeves royalties of which he shouldn't get anything. The wife left him $100,000.00 and land, that is enough, if she had wanted him to have more, she would have left him more. Why does he think he should get anything from Jim Reeves fame, greedy jerk.

one of the greats

Why does #$%$ always rise to the surface?