James Brown’s will, read last week in Aiken, South Carolina and excluded his “widow” and son, was written at least a full year before his 2001 marriage to former backup singer, Tomi Rae Hynie.

The will was signed on August 1, 2000, Srom Thurmond Jr., J.B’s probate attorney in Aiken, South Carolina told The Augusta Chronicle.

The singer, who may be getting a “Graceland” like museum of his very own, will have his personal effects be divided equally among his six adult children.