By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

On the same day that family members mourned at the funeral for the sons that Josh Powell murdered last month, his brother and sister both staked their claims on up to $2.5 million of life insurance, Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively reveal.

“The day the boys were buried, Alina and Michael applied for the life insurance policy, as they are both beneficiaries but the insurance company saw some strange things going on and weren’t sure if they wanted to pay without a count going over the policy and approving it,” Kirk Graves, who is married to Josh’s other sister, Jennifer Powell Graves, told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.