Aretha Franklin's family heads to court in estate battle

Five years after the death of Aretha Franklin, a battle over her estate is ongoing.

A probate court trial involving three of her four sons began Monday in Michigan after Franklin failed to leave behind a typed estate plan.

The Queen of Soul died in 2018 at age 76 from a rare form of cancer.

At the heart of the legal dispute are two separate wills.

Shortly after Franklin's death, her niece, Sabrina Owens, who at the time was the representative for the estate, found multiple, handwritten wills by the singer in her suburban Detroit home.

One of the documents was found under a couch cushion, while another was in a locked cabinet.

Two of her sons, Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin, want the document dated March 31, 2014 to be determined as her legal will, while another son, Ted White II, is advocating that a document from 2010 should stand.