Warner widow sues mother-in-law over $1.2 million trust claim
Tenisha Delilah Warner has filed a lawsuit in Georgia seeking at least $1.2 million from a family trust, alleging breach of a premarital agreement with the late actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
The widow of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner filed a lawsuit in DeKalb County Superior Court, Georgia, alleging that she is owed more than $1.2 million from a family revocable trust. The suit names Warner’s mother, Pamela Warner, as defendant in her capacity as successor trustee of a trust created in 1996, when Malcolm-Jamal Warner was 26 and unmarried.
According to the filing, Warner and his wife, Tenisha Delilah Warner, signed a premarital agreement in May 2022 that required Warner to purchase a $1 million life-insurance policy and to make $16,000 payments on each wedding anniversary. The complaint says Warner did not fulfill those obligations before his death in 2023.
"For the last year, I have attempted to privately settle my beloved husband’s complicated estate and honor his last wishes," Warner said in a statement, adding that Malcolm intended to provide for their nine-year-old daughter and her.
Warner’s representatives said he had been close to finalizing a new estate plan before his accidental drowning in Costa Rica. Lawyers for both Tenisha Delilah Warner and Pamela Warner did not respond to requests for comment.