After acute health issues that kept her away from Washington for months earlier this year, Senator Dianne Feinstein is now engaged in a legal bid to gain more control over the finances of her late husband’s trust.

The 90 year old

The senator filed a petition

to a court

making her daughter, Katherine Feinstein, successor to Richard Blum’s trust, arguing that the people who serve as trustees

“have refused to make distributions to pay for Senator Feinstein’s medical expenses.”

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who passed away last year was a wealthy financier

and Katherine Feinstein’s stepfather. Katherine Feinstein filed the petition on behalf of her mother; she is a former superior court judge and a current San Francisco fire commissioner.

“Senator Feinstein has incurred significant medical expenses, and she applied to whom she believed to be the trustees of the 1996 Marital Trust for reimbursement of her medical bills,”

the petition, which was submitted on Monday, says

in San Franc

i

sco Supreme Court.

“When she applied for reimbursement for her medical expenses, Senator Feinstein found that Blum had not named the alleged trustees in the 1996 Trust and that they had not been appointed in accordance with its terms.” The petition asks the court to name Katherine Feinstein

succeeding trustee who would control the trust, including a life insurance policy for Blum and its proceeds.

In the court documents, Feinstein argues that the trustees were Mark R. Klein and Marc Scholvinck

wrongly appointed as trustees after Blum’s death.

Feinstein (D-Calif.) missed nearly three months of work after suffering a case of shingles

other

experience long-term side effects

which partially paralyzed her face and caused difficulty walking

. Her absence, which delayed the nomination of some judicial candidates, caused serious consternation among colleagues and Democratic Party members.

When she returned in mid-May, she looked frail and, in conversation, seemed unable to remember that she had been gone for months. Her return unlocked the nomination of certain nominees and quelled some of the criticism directed at her.

A recent statewide poll found that more than 40% of voters thought Feinstein should step down, and only 27% thought she should finish her term.

She has already said she will not run for another term in 2024. Her office did not immediately call back for comment. Nor did Klein or Scholvinck, who both worked with Blum or had business relations.