Reminds me of the case in Bleak House, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce where the fortune that was being fought over disappeared to years of litigation. The taxpayers replace the key characters in this modern version.
I am “involved” in a similar case.....two cousins who hate each other arguing over every single dish, fork, and bowl in the estate they each own 50% of. Every single piece of thrift-store grade crud has to be argued over, I have never seen anything like it. Together, they have spent over $100K in legal fees arguing over worst case $10K (being VERY generous....my estimate would be more like $2000) worth of household crap. That is, if they just *had* to have it. They are arguing over giant trashy (IMO) looking buffet-grade silver-plate serving trays. I am talking about 20 pound trays 2-1/2 feet wide that wouldn’t look right unless there was 65 pounds of meat on them, meanwhile, neither of them can lift the trays with nothing on them. They both believe, I guess, they are going to host 55-person dinner parties. They both already have tons of this crap. What is the 17th glass serving bowl worth? The attys on the other side are goading their client to constantly escalate the pissing match and just loving it at $475 an hour.
It actually angers me, because of the amount of money that is being flushed down the toilet.