This story is a simple one: a woman’s husband and his sister inherited their late father’s house—and, just like every inheritance tale ever written, everything went swimmingly. They hugged, had tea, politely divided the spoils with zero drama, and reminisced lovingly while birds chirped cheerfully in the window. Except, of course, none of that happened.

This inheritance was just another installment in everyone’s favorite ongoing reality TV show Family Members Behaving Badly. What could have been a warm reminder of their dearly departed became an epic power struggle of passive-aggressive emails, emotional manipulation, and creative interpretations of fairness.

Which pushes some people to mix the two best types of personalities known to man. Greedy siblings and even greedier lawyers.