On Monday, a lawsuit that had been launched by one of the Houston Texans owner’s sons, who wanted her to be deemed unable, was dismissed.
In November, Robert Cary McNair Jr. submitted his application to be appointed Janice McNair’s guardian, who is 87 years old. However, attorneys representing Cary McNair and other parties to the case filed a motion on Monday pledging to collectively dismiss the complaint.
The Houston Chronicle broke the story of the case’s conclusion first. Cary McNair’s lawyer, Jeremy Fielding, told the newspaper that the family decided to deal with the problems in private.
According to Fielding, Cary McNair initiated the action to safeguard his mother rather than to “control her estate, as his brother Cal has incorrectly suggested.” McNair is worried about his mother’s health.
Cary McNair had previously disputed Janice McNair’s attorneys’ allegations that her mother was incapable of making decisions regarding her personal, financial, and medical matters, or that she need a guardian to oversee her. Cal McNair is the chairman and CEO of the Texans. Following her husband Bob McNair’s death in 2018, Janice McNair assumed primary ownership of the Texans.
“Cal McNair is overjoyed that his mother, Janice McNair, was not sued in an unnecessary manner today. He is happy that she won’t have to endure an unnecessary medical examination or be subjected to a restrictive guardianship that would limit her freedom. As the founding member and senior chairman of the Houston Texans, she will remain actively involved, according to a statement from Cal McNair’s lawyer, Paul Dobrowski.
Judge Jerry Simoneaux’s ruling earlier this month that Janice McNair would not need to have an independent assessment to assess her mental ability led to the decision to terminate the lawsuit. Cary McNair suffered a stroke in January 2022, and her lawyers had claimed in court that this had damaged her ability to do business, which is why they had requested the assessment.
The cause of the guardianship endeavor had not been made public until recently, when Simoneaux had sealed some of the lawsuit’s documents.
