The estranged wife of actor Mickey Rooney and his estate are locked in a legal tussle over the remains of the late Hollywood movie star, who left an estate of only $18,000.

Los Angeles County Super-ior Court Judge James Steele will decide at a hearing today whether Rooney’s remains will be released from an area mortuary to his wife, Janice Rooney, or to his conservator.

The versatile character actor, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1930s, died at age 93 on Sunday from natural causes. He disinherited his wife and all his children in a will dated March 11, leaving his estate to stepson Mark Rooney, who with his wife served as Rooney’s caregiver.

Rooney’s conservator, Michael Augustine, was granted a court order on Tuesday stopping Janice Rooney from removing the actor’s remains from a mortuary in Glendale, California.

Augustine said Rooney wanted to be buried at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever cemetery or at a cemetery for US veterans. Rooney served in the military as an entertainer during World War II.

He also has a burial plot in Westlake Village, California.

“We think we’ll be able to cut a deal between me and her,” Augustine said.

Rooney wed eight times, including a marriage to actress Ava Gardner. In 2011 he testified before a US Senate committee that he had been emotionally and financially abused by family members, sapping much of his savings.

Rooney and his last wife did not live together after 2012. She will receive his Social Security and some of his pension bene-fits, which will total about $8,400 a month.