Reese Witherspoon Attends Hearing in Parents' Bigamy Case Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 03:49 p.m., Saturday, May 12, 2012 Reese Witherspoon appeared in a Tennessee court Friday for an emergency closed-door hearing regarding a bigamy dispute between her parents. Check out the rest of today's news In the court documents, Betty Witherspoon claims that her 70-year-old husband suffers from dementia and has struggled with alcohol abuse.