A Nevada commissioner found that Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan had acted in ’bad faith’ in their effort to amend the trust and strip voting power away from three other children

Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch cannot change his family trust and give control to his son Lachlan after his death, according to a Nevada probate commissioner ruling.

Rupert Murdoch lost his initial bid to amend his family trust to cede power over his vast media empire to his eldest son Lachlan, according to The New York Times. Washoe County Probate Commissioner Edmund Gorman wrote that both Murdochs acted in “bad faith” to strip control over the trust from three of Rupert Murdoch’s other children—James,

Murdoch’s net worth is estimated at $12 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He has always intended to pass his media empire to Lachlan and his three other children: James, Elisabeth and Prudence.

A Nevada probate commissioner has rejected Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change his family’s trust in order to give his oldest child, Lachlan, control of News Corp when he dies. Rupert Murdoch has previously argued that Lachlan would keep Fox News’ conservative orientation and solidify his companies’ commercial values for all of his children.

Rupert Murdoch has been battling his children for the past several weeks after seeing an episode of "Succession" on HBO, and now bankers are worrying about the Fox Corp. founder's next move, the Financial Times reported.