A three-justice panel of the California Second District Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed a probate judge's ruling that Joe Jackson didn't have standing to intervene in his son's estate. Despite being excluded from his son's 2002 will, Joe Jackson had been seeking to have some control over financial affairs.

Attorney Brian Oxman, who represents Joe Jackson, said he would ask the court to reconsider and might appeal to the California Supreme Court. He insisted Joe Jackson should have some say in post-death affairs involving his son. "This is not right," Oxman said of the ruling.

Attorney Howard Weitzman, who represents the estate, said he was pleased the court affirmed the pop star's decision before he died to make attorney John Branca and music executive and family friend John McClain the executors of his will.