There you hit upon it. The lawyers don’t care if the family is screwed by this decision. They would take up to 50% if they won, but they only lost their overhead as it is. If you want to make frivolous lawsuits end, don’t make the plaintiff pay opposing counsel make the plaintiff’s lawyer pay. They can promise the naive client anything, and then walk away and leave them holding the bag.
I could go with that. But I’d still like to see the plaintiff take responsibility for their part at some level as a warning to others so inclined.
Granted, nailing the lawyers would prevent a lot if not nearly all such suits, but the hardcore ‘faithful’ will always find one. I compare it to the Sharpton/Jackson shakedown stuff. Even if you locked all the race hustlers up, you’d still have the ACORN types who are not ‘officially’ affiliated that could find a stooge to front their causes.
Lawyers are absolutely the enablers, no question. But IMO, not the core problem. That core is the legal lotto players.
TLDR: Make it hurt.