( The Hollywood Reporter ) It 's been nearly six months since Robin Williams ' death , and in the last two , the late comedian 's family have entered into a dispute over the personal property his trust assigns each of them . On one side is his widow , Susan Williams , who filed a petition in December for a court 's interpretation of the trust . On the other are his three children by previous marriages , Zachary , Zelda and Cody , who dispute the reading she provides . The dispute centers on the two houses Williams owned at the time of his death — one in Napa and one in Tiburon , California . Susan 's filing calls the Tiburon house the `` marital abode , '' and the trust , which her late husband most recently amended in 2010 , before their marriage in 2011 , grants her the Tiburon residence and its contents upon his death . That 's where things get complicated . Williams ' widow claims that `` within days '' of his death in August , the trustees started gathering up the comedian 's property . Within weeks they allegedly informed her they would come to the Tiburon residence to remove more of it . `` The co-Trustees had keys to her home . Naturally , Mrs. Williams became frightened of the co-Trustees invading her home , '' reads her petition , filed in San Francisco Superior Court . In their opposition , filed in the same court on January 21 , Williams ' children tell it differently . They claim that collecting and inventorying Williams ' property is part of the execution of the trust . Furthermore , they say she held them off for nearly three months `` while at the same time permitting various third parties to access the residence on her own behalf to appraise certain Trust assets , remove certain Trust assets from the Tiburon Residence , and plan , design and implement a $ 30,000 renovation . '' Read more : THR 's 10 Most Popular Stories of 2014 . She complains of not being `` given time to grieve her loss free from the frenetic efforts to interfere with her domestic tranquility '' or that of her high-school-aged sons . But her resistance to the trustees ' efforts was in part due to concerns over the interpretation of the trust . Specifically , there 's one paragraph about certain items of Williams ' property that his beneficiaries have made into a tricky semantics debate . The paragraph assigns to Williams ' children all of his `` clothing , jewelry , personal photos taken prior to his marriage to ( Susan ) ... memorabilia and awards in the entertainment industry and the tangible personal property located in Napa . '' In Susan 's interpretation , the paragraph is ambiguous regarding the house ( or houses ) from which the items can be removed . Is the phrase `` located in Napa '' in reference only to `` tangible personal property , '' or is it restrictive of every category ? She claims her husband wished `` to allow her to stay in their Tiburon home as it was during their marriage , '' and therefore the paragraph should be read to cover only the items in the Napa house , not those in the Tiburon house . `` Any other interpretation would lead to Mrs. Williams 's home being stripped while Mrs. Williams still lives there , '' her filing reads . It would give the trustees permission to give to the children items including the tuxedo he wore at their wedding , she specifies . `` It is difficult to imagine Mr. Williams desiring that outcome . '' But Williams ' kids read the trust differently — they argue that it grants them every category of item listed in addition to the property in the Napa house , not every category of item confined to the Napa house . It 's nonsensical to list `` the tangible personal property located in Napa '' separately if there are n't items to which they 're entitled outside the Napa house , they argue . They point out lines in the trust that give Susan the Tiburon house and its contents with the exceptions of items gifted in other stipulations . They want the court to declare they 're entitled to the categories ' items in the Tiburon house , too . `` The Williams Children are heartbroken that Petitioner , Williams ' wife of less than three years , has acted against his wishes by challenging the plans he so carefully made for his estate , '' reads their opposition . `` While it is styled as a request for instruction , the Petition in fact appears to be a blatant attempt to alter the disposition of assets Mr. Williams specifically planned and provided for . '' `` We 're puzzled a little by the tone of the opposition , '' Susan Williams ' attorney , James Wagstaffe , tells The Hollywood Reporter . `` I 'm hopeful that there 's a spirit of generosity in this . '' Read more : Robin Williams Had `` Early Stages of Parkinson 's Disease , '' Wife Says . But Susan 's petition anticipates their counterargument , and in the event a judge finds the paragraph applies to the Tiburon house , she wants categories like `` memorabilia '' and `` jewelry '' narrowly defined . The former should encompass only items depicting him or relating to his fame — `` in other words , this does not include his personal collections of knick-knacks '' — and the latter should n't include his watches , she argues . Williams 's children dispute her interpretations , in particular criticizing her characterization of their father 's collections — which apparently included Japanese anime figurines , antique weapons , carved boxes , theater masks , rare books , lapel pins , fossils , graphic novels and skulls — as `` knick-knacks . '' They were `` carefully amassed '' during his lifetime and should go to his children , they argue . `` As the Williams Children grew , so did their father 's collections and they shared in their father 's excitement as additions were made to his collections , '' their filing reads . There 's one separate question , too . It 's unclear whether the contents of storage spaces Susan claims were intended for the Tiburon home should go to her as if they were contents of the house itself . California courts have never addressed the issue , according to Susan 's filing . `` In other states that have considered this issue , courts have found that a residence , i.e . a home should be broadly interpreted , '' her filing continues . The Williams children , unsurprisingly , present different case law that indicates a home should be strictly understood to mean the physical location . A hearing is scheduled for March 30 in Superior Court in Marin County , where Tiburon is located , but Wagstaffe tells THR he hopes the parties will sort it out in discussions before then . Attorneys for the Williams children have not responded to a request for comment . Read the original story in The Hollywood Reporter .
Robin Williams ' widow , children at odds over trust designations . Dispute centers on two houses Williams owned . The comedian , Williams died August 11 , 2017 .