Previously known to be exploiting their father’s legacy in the past years, Martin Luther King’s children are again in the attention of the press due to a lawsuit they are currently involved in.

Two of the siblings filed suit against the third one, Dexter King, alleging that he improperly took money from their late mother’s estate without telling his siblings.

Bernice King, who is the administrator of their mother’s estate, and Martin Luther King III, filed a lawsuit Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, seeking to open the records of their father’s estate, which is managed by their brother Dexter King.

They claim that Dexter King has not only withdrawn large sums of money from the bank account of Coretta Scott King, but he has also mismanaged and wasted the assets of their father’s estate, and has refused to give them information about his operations, actions and financial affairs.

Jock Smith, who will represent the two plaintiffs in the case, said Friday, according to the Associated Press, that the decision to sue their brother was not easy to take. The two siblings, “are not happy that they had to bring this action,” Smith said, and they only ask to be included in their father’s legacy.

Dexter King, who is also chief executive officer of The King Center and chairman of its board of directors, declared in a statement released Friday that he considered the lawsuit unfortunate and unfair.

He said he was disappointed that the problem between himself and his siblings became publicly known, and that he hoped that “this inappropriate and false claim by my siblings will be swiftly resolved and we can go about the business of focusing on our parents' tremendous legacy.”

Two years ago, the King’s estate, which is in control of Luther King’s image, sold a collection of more than 10,000 of his personal papers and books for $32 million.