Attorney: Gary Coleman has will from 1999

[June 05, 2010]  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah attorney says a client of his has been named the executor of Gary Coleman's estate with the power to make funeral arrangements for the late actor.

A Salt Lake City attorney said Friday he has a will Coleman wrote in 1999 that he will take to a court sometime next week. The lawyer wouldn't reveal details of the will, including the name of the executor, but said Coleman will not be buried this weekend.

An attorney for Coleman's parents says the person named in the will is Dion Mial, a friend and former manager of the former child TV star.

Coleman's estranged parents had asked to return the body to his boyhood home in Illinois once it was discovered that Coleman had divorced his wife in 2008.

Coleman died May 28 from a brain hemorrhage at age 42.

[Associated Press; By BROCK VERGAKIS]

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