Heath's Daugther Might Not Get Money After All

The uncles of tragic HEATH LEDGER fear his father KIM will fail to provide for the actor’s young daughter, because he has such a bad track record of financial management.

The Brokeback Mountain star left all of his assets to parents Kim and Sally and older sister Kate, having filed his will in Australia in April 2003 - two years prior to birth of his daughter, Matilda, with then-girlfriend, actress Michelle Williams.

Kim has ensured both Williams and her daughter will be financially "taken care of" but his brothers Mike and Larry are not convinced, claiming they were forced to remove him as executor of their grandfather’s estate 15 years ago after "it plunged into enormous debt".

Mike insists their only motivation for casting doubt over their brother’s ability to handle Heath’s assets is the welfare of little Matilda, telling People.com: "Our only vested interest is to assure that Matilda is well looked after." Larry claims he’s had a conversation with Williams’ father Larry, who asked if Kim was capable of handling the finances: "I just said, ‘No, not if he handles it like ours.’" The bitter family feud dates back to when Kim became an executor of their grandfather Sir Frank Ledger’s estate, which was worth an estimated $2 million (£1 million) in the mid 1980s.

Sir Frank’s daughters filed a motion in Supreme Court asking to remove Kim as the executor on the grounds he’d "placed the assets at risk".

Heath Ledger suffered a fatal accidental overdose of prescription drugs in his New York apartment on 22 January (08). He was 28.

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