• 08
  • April
    2011

South Florida radio personality Neil Rogers died at the end of last year, December 24th, at the age of 68. Now a controversy has arisen over Rogers' will, because it appears he signed two different wills before his death.

The competing wills are looking to be the subject of a courtroom battle. Rogers had been living in Toronto, and a will drawn up in that city on November 3rd left Rogers' entire estate to 21-year-old Christian Ramon Sanchez Hernandez.

The second will, signed three weeks later in South Florida, divides the estate equally between Hernandez, who is described in the second will as Rogers' companion, and two of the Rogers' longtime friends, David Hine and Jonathan Julian.

The second will, from November 23rd, includes a clause that declares any will signed in Canada "null and void."

Rogers had a will in 1997 that gave the entire estate to Hine and Julian, to be divided equally.

Hernandez plans to argue in court that the November 23rd will is invalid because Rogers was extremely ill at the time and therefore lacked capacity to make a new will.

Florida contested will attorneys following the news of the case note that the two competing wills have been filed as part of a probate case at the Broward County Courthouse with Circuit Judge Mark Speiser set to determine which one will be carried out.

The size of Rogers' estate is not given in court documents, but he was the first South Florida radio personality to be paid in excess of $1 million a year.

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Legal battle begins over radio personality Neil Rogers' estate" 3/23/2011