Even Behind Bars For Life Julia Phillips Fights For Possesion of A Home

Servinga life sentence for murder has not stopped Julia Phillips from fighting a legalbattle over possession of her late husband’s home. Phillips is in prison forthe murder of the former Mayor of York, Melvin Roberts. Reports indicate Phillipsstayed in the home until she was arrested for partaking in the strangling deathof Roberts. Melvin Roberts had been providing Phillips with money to pay herbills for the past ten years. It is possible that the South Carolina’s”slayer’s law” will affect the outcome. The “slayer’s law”disallows people from being able to benefit financially when they commitmurder.

Despiteher guilt for partaking in Melvin’s death, she still has legal rights tochallenge the ownership of her late husband, Bryant Phillips’s, home. Someexperts are saying that it is unclear if the slayer statue will have any effecton the outcome because the purpose of the slayer statue is to keep someone frominheriting anything from the estate of the person who she murdered. Here, eventhough Bryant Phillips is dead Julia was not implicated in his death, but his daughters were seeking answers about his death in 1999.

See Andrew Dys, From Prison, Julia Phillips Fighting For Possession of Late Husband’s Home, Herald Online,  Oct. 5, 2013.

Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.