# Warner Family Trust

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-07**: Lawsuit filed — Tenisha Warner files suit against Pamela Warner as trustee of the Warner Family Trust; TMZ first reports the filing.
- **2025-07-20**: Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies — The actor drowns in Costa Rica at age 54.
- **2022**: Prenuptial agreement signed — The couple signs a prenuptial agreement just before their wedding, disclosing Warner's ~$680,000 annual earnings and ~$3.4 million net worth.
- **2022**: Marriage — Tenisha Warner and Malcolm-Jamal Warner marry; she is pregnant with their second child and not working at the time.
- **1996**: Warner Family Trust established — Malcolm-Jamal Warner settles the Warner Family Trust, roughly 26 years before his marriage to Tenisha Warner.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Widow Claims $1.2M Prenup Breach Against Warner Family Trust Trustee
2026-08-12 18:19:33 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

The widow of Malcolm-Jamal Warner has sued the Warner Family Trust's trustee to enforce a 2022 prenuptial agreement, alleging more than $1.2 million in unpaid obligations including an unmaintained $1 million life insurance policy. For trusts-and-estates and family law practitioners, the filing raises sharp questions about creditor reach into trust assets and trustee liability when a settlor dies with executory prenup covenants unsatisfied.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/tenisha-warner-prenup-breach-warner-family-trust-legal

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