A barely-legible handwritten document unearthed from Aretha Franklin’s couch cushions the year after her death was deemed to be a valid will by a Michigan jury on Tuesday.

Following less than an hour of deliberations — and a trial that started Monday in Oakland County Probate Court — the six-person panel ruled in favor of two of the Queen of Soul’s sons, Kecalf and Edward Franklin, who maintained that the 2014 note was their mom’s legal will.

The brothers and a third Franklin son, Ted White II — aka Teddy Richards, — had been duking it out in court over whether that document or another from 2010 should be followed in carrying out plans for their superstar mom’s estate, estimated to be worth about $6 million.

The iconic singer did not have a formal typewritten will at the time of her 2018 death.

With the verdict, White lost his bid to have the 2010 document deemed valid. That note named him as an executor and specified the other two brothers needed to obtain a degree or certificate in business administration before they could inherit.

Kecalf and Edward Franklin maintained that the more recent document should override the earlier version.

After the verdict was read out — following less than an hour of deliberations — Franklin’s grandkids hugged Kecalf and Edward in the courtroom.

“I’m very, very happy,” Kecalf said. “I just wanted my mother’s wishes to be adhered to.”

“We just want to exhale right now. It’s been a long five years for my family, my children,” Kecalf said.

During closing arguments Tuesday, lawyers for Kecalf and Edward said it shouldn’t matter that the 2014 papers were found in a spiral notebook tucked under a couch cushion at Franklin’s suburban Detroit house — arguing the doc should still be considered valid.

It’s “inconsequential. … You can take your will and leave it on the kitchen counter. It’s still your will,” Charles McKelvie, Kecalf’s lawyer, said.

Edward’s lawyer Craig Smith agreed, arguing that the 2014 document, “Says right here: ‘This is my will.’ She’s speaking from the grave, folks.”

In addition to the two wills differing on who would be the executors of Franklin’s estate, the later one also bequeath’s Franklin’s Bloomfield Hills home — which she called the “crown jewel” — to Kecalf and his children. The home was valued at $1.1 million when Franklin died and is worth much more today.

“Teddy wants to disinherit his two brothers,” Smith argued. “Teddy wants it all.”

But White’s lawyer Kurt Olson fired back during his closing arguments saying, “They’re trying to make Ted a bad guy.”

Olson claimed that Franklin’s signature was in the wrong place on the 2014 document, invalidating it.

Olson didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday on whether his client planned to appeal.

With Post wires