Jay Leno Files For Conservatorship Of Wife's Estate, Citing Dementia

The comic and his wife, Mavis Leno, have been married for 43 years.

Jay Leno has filed to be conservator of his wife’s estate, citing her diminished capacity due to dementia.

Court documents reviewed by HuffPost state that his wife, Mavis Leno, has been “progressively losing capacity and orientation to space and time for several years” and is not capable of executing her own estate. The two have been married for 43 years.

The retired late night host is asking courts to issue a substituted judgment to allow him to approve his wife’s estate planning and execute a testamentary plan, which is a type of trust created after the grantor’s death.

A substituted judgement is often used when a patient lacks decision making capacity and has no advance directive.

The court documents state that Jay Leno is petitioning the courts “to ensure” his wife’s “desires concerning the disposition of her assets upon her death are realized.”