Dolly Partons $450M estate is being decided but will her family get a significant cut?

Dolly Parton grew up in a tiny log cabin nestled north of the Smoky Mountains, one of 11 siblings living in abject poverty.But at the time of her death from cancer on August 25, the country superstar was worth some $450 million, ranking her among the top 100 richest self-made women in America, according to Forbes.She’d come a long way from “barely getting by” — as she sang in her hit tribute to working class life “9 to 5.”Her passing, less than 18 months after husband Carl Dean — with whom she had no children — leaves many potential claimants to her sizeable estate within her family, which is a huge number of people when all her nieces, nephews and other relatives are factored in.“When people die, particularly if there is big money involved, there are always issues,” an attorney at Schell & Oglesby in Franklin, Tennessee, told The Post.“It’s just human nature for some people.When it comes to money, there are those who want to gain more personal benefits than the others.

This happens in all kinds of families.”Even the best planned estates can run into trouble, as probate law can be widely interpreted and complicated by clashing wills, competing claims and vulture lawyers who sign up decedents.In the case of Dolly, signs of trouble have already started to rear their ugly head with a spat between her nephew, who is also her longtime head of security, and her longstanding manager breaking out this week.With Dolly’s estate, there’s a lot to account for. She wrote 3,000 songs, creating a music catalogue said to be worth around $120 million.

She held a 50 percent stake in her Dollywood theme park — nestled in the town of Pigeon Forge, Tenn.near where Dolly was born, which has traditionally employed many of her relatives —  and owns Sandollar productions, in which she was partnered with Hollywood bigwig Sandy Gallin.Parton was an (often uncredited) producer of shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as well as many others and fea...