Gary Coleman and his former wife, Shannon Price, pictured in 2008 before their divorce. Photo by AP.
Attorneys for Shannon Price filed the petition this week. Coleman died on May 28 after suffering a brain haemorrhage and his last-known will names friend and former manager Dion Mial as his estate's executor.
The former child actor says in the will that he wanted to be remembered in a wake conducted by people who had no financial ties to the star of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
Documents filed in 4th District Court in Provo say even though Coleman and Price were divorced in 2008, she is still his common law wife and that she should be the one to make funeral arrangements.
