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Legal
Etta James husband given access to funds for medical costs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 19 January 2011
A California judge has granted the husband of Etta James access to $60,000 of the singer’s money to cover medical fees until next month.
As previously reported, the R&B star suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, while legal papers filed by husband Artis Mills last week revealed she is also battling leukaemia. Mills told the court his wife could no longer handle her own affairs, and that he needed control of her finances to pay for medical expenditure.
As also previously reported, James had already given power of attorney for such eventualities to her two sons, one of whom, Donto, challenged Mills’ claim for control of his mother’s finances last week.
Although he said he did not object to the use of his mother’s money for medical treatment, he requested that a third party be put in charge of paying such fees out of James’ bank accounts “to avoid present and future family conflict and discrepancies”.
Nevertheless, the judge decided to give Mills direct access to sixty grand to cover short term medical care. Presumably another hearing will be needed to decide what happens after that time is up.
