Battle Rages Over Mickey Rooney’s Body: Restraining Order To Be Placed On Remains Until Court Decides Where To Bury Actor

April 8 2014, Published 6:52 a.m. ET
A restraining order is likely to be placed on the body of late actor Mickey Rooney as his feuding family contest where he should be buried, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.
Lawyers for Rooney will square off with representatives for his wife Jan Chamberlain, 75, at Los Angeles Superior Court’s probate section on Tuesday where they’ll ask for a protective order on the screen legend’s remains until it can be determined what to do with it.
According to a family source, his eighth wife Jan is determined that Rooney, who died at age 93 on Sunday, be quietly buried next to his mother.
But Rooney’s lawyers are said to want a grand Hollywood funeral that could cost tens of thousands of dollars. Their bid is being supported by other members of the family, including his stepson Mark Aber, whose home the two-time Oscar-winning actor was at when he died.
A source told Radar: “Mickey's lawyers claim this is what he would have wanted, but Jan knows him best and