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...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...
...Outcome of the long court fight between Jackie Coogan and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Bernstein: an agreement being submitted to court this week, to split the $250,000 remnant of the $4,000,000 which he earned as a child star...
...Angeles lawyer's office, one-time Cinemoppet Jackie (The Kid) Coogan bestowed a kiss upon the cheek of Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, his mother and bitter opponent in a law suit over his $4,000,000 estate (TIME, April 18). Mrs. Bernstein wept...
...Jackie has had all he is entitled to, and more," shrilled Lillian Coogan Bernstein. "He isn't entitled to that money. It belongs to us." Added Stepfather Bernstein: "The law is on our side. Lawyers tell his mother and me that every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents...
...weekly allowance. Day before his 21st birthday he got $1,000, heard his mother say next day, about the rest: "You haven't got a cent. There never has been one cent belonging to you. It's all mine." Year later Arthur Bernstein married Lillian Coogan. One day the Kid hauled off, knocked Arthur rump over teakettle. From that day on, the Coogan mansion was not big enough for both of them...