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The settlement, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Oct.
2, dismissed a petition filed by the actor's widow, Susan
Schneider Williams, in December 2014 and brings an end to a
nearly year-long dispute over a list of over 1,200 items
belonging to the late actor.
A lawyer for Susan Williams said in a statement on Monday that
the settlement was "highly favorable" and that the home she
shared with the late actor will remain in her trust.
"I feel like Robin's voice has been heard and I can finally
grieve in the home we shared together," Susan Williams said in a
statement from her lawyer James Wagstaffe at Kerr & Wagstaffe
LLP.
"While it was painful to have truckloads of his belongings
removed from our home, it's the few sentimental items I get to
hold onto that mean everything to me. I thank God for this."
Other details of the proposed settlement, contingent on court
approval, include Susan Williams keeping gifts from her 2011
wedding to the late actor, a watch often worn by him and a bike
the couple bought together on their honeymoon, her lawyer said.
The statement added that Williams' three children will receive
"more than 50 bikes and over 85 watches, as well as thousands of
never-disputed items like Robin Williams' Academy Award statue."
Representatives for the actor's three children, Zelda, Zachary
and Cody Williams, did not respond to requests for comment on
Monday.
Susan Williams, who was the late actor's third wife and not the
mother of Zelda, Zachary and Cody Williams, had said in the
petition that some property was removed without her permission
after the actor's death from the house she had shared with her
husband.
In August, attorneys for the three children filed papers in
court saying Susan Williams was trying to unjustly increase a
reserve fund dedicated to all recurring costs associated with
the luxury Tiburon, California, home.
Williams, star of films such as "Good Morning, Vietnam" and
"Mrs. Doubtfire," died aged 63 at the home in August 2014. His
widow said he was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's
disease along with severe depression.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Frances Kerry and Lisa
Shumaker)
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