text: Alan Thicke Sons Go to War with His Wife To Protect the Estate 
   
   Alan Thicke's Sons Fighting to Protect Estate from His Wife 
   
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   Alan Thicke's sons -- Robin and Brennan -- believe their dad's third wife is making moves to get more of his estate than she deserves, and they're taking action to nip it in the bud. 
   
   The sons, with attorney Alex Weingarten﻿, have filed legal docs in Alan's probate case, claiming his widow, Tanya Callau, is greedy and overreaching to get a bigger piece of the pie than their dad intended in his will. In the docs they say she threatened to go to tabloids if her demands are not met. 
   
   They don't mention a specific dollar amount she's allegedly trying to get. 
   
   According to the docs ... Alan got rich and famous long before meeting Callau, and they signed a prenup when they wed in 2005. The sons say she's threatening to challenge the prenup. 
   
   The sons say Tanya also wants more because she claims to have given up her own career to support Alan and help raise his youngest son, Carter. 
   
   According to docs ... the boys say their dad left Tanya 25 percent of his personal effects, 40 percent of his remaining estate, a $500k life insurance policy and said she could live at the ranch. 
   
   Robin and Brennan want a judge to enforce the will and the prenup. ||||| The actor's children say they have no choice but to protect their father's legacy from the "avarice and overreaching" of his third wife. 
   
   America's dearly departed favorite dad Alan Thicke is at the center of what is shaping up to be a dramatic family fight, as his two oldest sons are taking his wife to court over his estate. 
   
   Brennan and Robin Thicke are co-trustees of Thicke's living trust. They say they've been left with no choice but to file a petition in order to "honor the memory of their father, protect his legacy, and prevent his testamentary intentions from being undermined by avarice and overreaching of his third wife, Tanya Callau." 
   
   Thicke died suddenly in December at age 69, after his aorta ruptured while playing hockey with his son Carter. 
   
   The older sons claim their father acquired the vast majority of his wealth long before meeting Callau, who signed a prenuptial agreement ahead of their 2005 marriage. 
   
   In the trust, Thicke left each of his three children equal shares of a Carpinteria ranch, 75 percent of his personal effects and 60 percent of his remaining estate, according to the petition. He left Callau the ranch's furnishings, 25 percent of his personal effects, a $500,000 life insurance policy, all of his death benefits from pensions and union memberships and 40 percent of his remaining estate. He also provided that she could live at the ranch, as long as she paid for its expenses and maintained the property. 
   
   Now, Thicke's sons claim Callau is insisting that the prenup she signed is invalid. 
   
   According to the petition filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Thicke updated his trust from time to time, and the most recent iteration was signed in February 2016. It designated his brother Todd as the trustee, and left the estate in the hands of his children if Todd declined the role — which he did. Brennan and Robin say Callau made no complaints about the prenuptial agreement or the estate plan at that time. 
   
   "Now that Alan is dead, Tanya claims there are numerous problems with the Trust and the Prenuptial Agreement," writes attorney Alex Weingarten in the petition. "Tanya asserts that there is no chance the 'Prenup' could withstand legal challenge and that she has very significant community rights in the Trust’s assets and rights of reimbursement with respect to improvements to the Ranch. Tanya also claims 'Marvin rights' asserting that she had to forgo opportunities to pursue and advance her own career in order to support Alan and be his companion and partner, including raising Carter." 
   
   Weingarten also claims Thicke's wife has "threatened to make her claims fodder for 'tabloid publicity' unless the Co-Trustees agreed to participate in a mediation and succumb to her demands." 
   
   The Thickes are asking the court for instructions concerning the extent to which the Trust's property is the actor's separate property and whether Callau's challenge to the prenup is barred because she waived her community property rights when signing it. 
   
   "My clients made every effort to resolve this without the need for going to court," Weingarten tells The Hollywood Reporter. "The only thing they care about is protecting the legacy of their father and honoring his intentions. That is exactly what we are going to do." 
   
   The widow's attorney Adam Streisand sent THR a statement Tuesday evening. "Tanya Thicke has never threatened to take private family matters public and she never has," he says. "It is clear that Alan’s sons have chosen this distasteful public smear tactic to bully Tanya, by stirring up the tabloid media, filing a bogus lawsuit, and refusing family mediation. Tanya is still grieving the death of her beloved husband and out of respect for Alan’s memory intends to handle his son’s false statements privately." 
   
   May 16, 6:00 p.m. Updated with a statement from Tanya Callau Thicke's attorney.
target: – Alan Thicke's kids are fighting with his third wife over the late actor's estate. Robin Thicke and brother Brennan, the oldest of Thicke's three sons, say that Tanya Callau—who wed Thicke in 2005—is threatening them with bad publicity unless they give her more of Thicke's estate. Thicke left much of his estate to his three children, but Callau still inherited a significant amount (the Hollywood Reporter has the exact breakdown) and was allowed to continue living on his Carpinteria, Calif., ranch. Thicke's sons say their father acquired most of his wealth before meeting Callau, and that she signed a prenup prior to marrying Thicke. They also say she had no issues with the prenup or the estate plan the last time Thicke updated his trust, in February 2016. (He died in December.) But now, Thicke's sons claim, Callau is claiming the prenup is invalid and there are problems with the trust. Per a petition the brothers filed in a Los Angeles court this week, the brothers say Callau also claims she has community rights to more of Thicke's assets, she should be reimbursed for any improvements she makes to the ranch while living there, and that she took a step back from her own career to support Thicke and help raise his youngest son. The brothers' attorney says in the filing that Callau has "threatened to make her claims fodder for 'tabloid publicity' unless the Co-Trustees agreed to participate in a mediation and succumb to her demands," leading the brothers to ask a court to enforce the prenup and Thicke's will, TMZ reports. Callau's rep says in a statement, "Tanya Thicke has never threatened to take private family matters public."