A firm of Cape Town attorneys is investigating Taliep Petersen's decision to make his youngest child the sole beneficiary of his R5,3-million life insurance policy, even though he has five other children.
The firm, De Klerk and Van Gend, is questioning whether Petersen willingly consented to the move and whether he agreed to exclude his other children from benefiting.
The current beneficiary, nine-year-old Zaynab Petersen, was born from the music icon's marriage to Najwa Petersen - the woman who was sentenced to 28 years in jail for orchestrating his murder.
Attorney Igshaan Higgins, who is being assisted by Sharlene Mouton, said he believed the investigation would be finalised within the next two weeks. He refused to divulge any details, but said he wanted to be sure that Zaynab had been made the sole beneficiary with Petersen's full consent.
"We don't want the children to be left destitute at the end of the day," Higgins said on Wednesday.
Taliep Petersen had a daughter, Natasha Vorster, from a previous relationship, and three daughters and a son from his marriage to Madeegha Anders.
During Najwa Petersen's bail ap-plication in the Wynberg Regional Court, it emerged that she had attempted to have the R5,3m paid into a Namibian bank account in her name soon after Petersen's murder in December 2006.
She told the court she had done this because she did not use that account and had wanted to keep the money separate from her own. Her intention had been to set up a trust fund for Zaynab.
Najwa Petersen testified that she had paid the monthly premiums of her husband's policy because he had been prepared to pay only R250 to R300 a month.
Immediately after she was sentenced, the Petersens indicated that they intended to fight for sole custody of Zaynab, saying that Taliep Petersen's sister, Ma'atoema Groenmeyer, should take care of the girl.
Since her mother's incarceration, Zaynab has been living with Najwa Petersen's son from a previous marriage, Suleiman Effendi.
Meanwhile, the winding up of Petersen's estate is drawing to a close.
Higgins said the estate had initially been insolvent but that he had created a "positive balance" after persuading Namibian tax authorities to reduce their claim from R3.8m to R800 000.
The Namibian tax authorities claimed that the amount represented Najwa Petersen's unpaid taxes that stemmed from a business she and her siblings operated there.
Since she and Taliep Petersen were married in community of property, her debts could be claimed from the estate.
Higgins said the firm had managed to realise assets worth R4.244m through the sale of properties and money Petersen had earned from the production Ghoema in London.
Once the Namibian tax authorities had been paid and other liabilities settled, the estate had a positive balance of R179 000. Higgins said he had, however, not yet settled claims from the SA Revenue Services.
He said that even though the estate was small, the developments meant Petersen's children would be able to benefit from future royalties.
In February, Najwa Petersen was sentenced to 28 years in jail for Taliep Petersen's murder, while Waheed Hassen and Abdoer Raasiet Emjedi were each sentenced to 24 years.
Hassen received an additional one-year sentence for the unlawful possession of a firearm.
Jefferson Snyders was sentenced to seven years for robbery.