Family members of the late reggae star Sugar Minott edge ever closer to solution to a prolonged intestacy battle in December as there will be a hearing with the Administrator General to finalize his estate affairs.

“So what we now have is a date for the valuations to be submitted by December 8, 2025 and we remain in negotiations with the Administrator General and the beneficiaries as to the process which includes a Trust for Sale,” Maxine Stowe, Sugar Minott’s wife, said.

Stowe had been feuding with several of Minott’s children for years over matters concerning his estate and his life celebration event. Minott died in 2010 at age 54.

Sugar Minott married music executive Maxine Stowe, niece of Clement Coxsone Dodd in 1993, who at the time was working at Columbia Records. The couple had met at Coxsone’s Music City in Brooklyn, New York, in 1978, where they collaborated and produced the album, Roots Lovers. They remained married until his death.

There is hope for some rapprochement between the feuding parties as Pashon, who was once Stowe’s most vocal critic, is ready to let peace reign.

“Maxine and I, and a few of my siblings, have been in dialogue. We want everything to be under one umbrella,” Pashon had said in an earlier interview.

“And I know that once Maxine and I are in constant dialogue, and on great terms, things will move along well.”

Pashon’s mother had four children with the musical great.

The matter is in court because Sugar Minott died without a will, and if there is no togetherness, the court could arrange for a sale of the estate or the assets. But what is the value of Sugar Minott’s estate?