Aretha Franklin will be found on the couch after her death is declared valid, according to jury rules

A jury determined that a handwritten document was found Aretha FranklinHer sofa is a valid will…a major development after years of her children fighting over her property.

The ruling on the hard-to-read pages came in a Michigan court on Tuesday. The will was found in 2019, the year after her death, in a notebook hidden under the sofa in Aretha’s home in Detroit.

The documents, dated March 31, 2014, are very different from a draft of his will from 2010.

The newest pages apparently designate their children Kecalf i Edward as executors of his $6 million estate, and it looks like the name “Teddy,” aka Ted White II — his brother who was set as executor in the 2010 version — is crossed out.

Additionally, the 2010 version appeared to require that Kecalf and Edward take business classes and obtain a degree or certificate in order to benefit from Aretha’s estate, but the 2014 version does not include this requirement.

TMZ broke the story, initially no will was found when Aretha passed away in 2018 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, but since then it’s been all-out war between their children.