Kellie Pickler Reportedly Settles Legal Case With Late Husband's Parents
Kellie Pickler has reportedly reached an undisclosed settlement with her late husband Kyle Jacobs‘ parents after a multiyear legal battle over possession of his personal items.
Pickler, 40, and Kyle’s parents, Reed and Sharon Jacobs, have reportedly “fully resolved all claims, disputes, and requests for relief by and between them,” per court documents obtained by People on Wednesday, November 4. The motion stipulated that both sides were “satisfied with the distribution of assets” and with the current state of Kyle’s estate.
The reported settlement concludes more than two years of legal wrangling over who has legal ownership over Kyle’s personal property following his death in February 2023. (The Jacobses are coadministrators of Kyle’s estate.)
Us has reached out to representatives for both sides for comment.
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A May 2023 medical examiner’s report determined that Jacobs died by suicide at age 49, with a toxicology investigation determining that there were no drugs in his system at the time of his passing. (He was found dead by local police officers in the couple’s Nashville home .)
In 2024, Pickler took legal action against Reed and Sharon, alleging that her late spouse’s parents made a “List of Assets” and demanded she turn them over via subpoena, per to a petition obtained by Us. (Among the items Kyle’s parents requested were his gun collection, watches and jewelry, baseball cards, musical instruments and any personal devices.)
“A dispute has arisen amongst the parties regarding certain personal property allegedly [in Kyle’s] possession prior to his death,” Pickler’s attorneys claimed in their original court paperwork.
Her lawyers argued that the ownership of certain items that Kyle’s parents requested was in dispute. Pickler also accused her in-laws of allegedly taking certain items out of her home without permission.
“As part of this action, Ms. Pickler seeks an order requiring the coadministrators to identify the items that they obtained from her home,” her petition read.
Reed and Sharon denied a litany of Pickler’s allegations, explaining in their own November 2024 court filing that they’d entered her home “at the express invitation of [their daughter-in-law] and her counsel whom they met to discuss the transfer of items belonging to the estate.”
Kyle’s parents asked that a court dismiss Pickler’s lawsuit on the grounds that they were following stipulations laid out in a prenuptial agreement that the singer and Jacobs signed when they got married in 2011.
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Pickler was ultimately granted a protective order that blocked either party from sharing any transcript or video evidence from court proceedings to avoid any “annoyance, embarrassment, oppression or undue burden or expense.”
