The latest trustee for Nick Reiner‘s trust fund has blocked his request to access money from it to cover court fees and commissary costs, citing California’s “slayer statute.”

The 32-year-old — who is accused of murdering his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner — filed a petition to access the trust fund in California court in June. He claims the trust, which his parents established in his name in 1993 after his birth that year, is in excess of $1.5 million.

The previous and incoming fiduciaries set to oversee the trust, Paul Kanin and Jodi Pais Montgomery, have opposed his request in court papers filed in early August, citing a California law known as the “slayer statute.” The law prevents individuals from inheriting money or property — including trusts — from a person they “feloniously and intentionally” kill. The New York Times was first to report the news.

Nick claimed in his initial petition that he has not yet received the mandatory distribution of one-half of the trust he should have received at age 30. He also demands that the first half of the trust payment be released to him so that he can cover legal expenses and fund his commissary account so he can buy “basic necessities” like socks and hygiene products.

In court papers obtained by PEOPLE, new trustee Montgomery has prevented Nick from accessing money from the decades-old trust, stating that criminal proceedings will ultimately decide the fate of the trust fund.

The incoming fiduciary, per the court papers, takes the position that “no distribution should be made until the Court resolves whether” the slayer statute should affect Nick’s entitlement.

“Nick’s sense of urgency is real, but it did not arise in a vacuum,” the new filing reads. “It arises from the deaths of his parents, the very settlors of the Trust at issue, and Nick is presently accused of causing those deaths.”

In a previous court filing obtained by PEOPLE, Lauriann Wright, a lawyer for Montgomery, writes: “California has enacted no exception permitting a killer’s inheritance to be used for criminal-defense costs.”

Wright also writes in the same filing that the money in Nick’s trust would be passed to Rob and Michele’s two other children, Jake and Romy, once again citing the slayer statute.

Pais Montgomery has a fiduciary responsibility to the siblings, Wright writes, arguing that while Reiner only stands accused of his parents’ murder, the release of the money would be an “irreversible” move.

In court documents filed in response, Nick states in part, “I did not give my consent to any Trustee of my Trust to withhold, defer, or retain my Age-30 Distribution indefinitely as ‘property of the Trust.’”

“I have never understood anything I did (or did not do) to constitute giving the Trustee my consent to indefinitely withhold my Age-30 Distribution from me and retain it as property of the Trust even after I have asked for it,” he states elsewhere in the filing, “and it was not my intention to consent to that.”