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> nothing left but fighting to fight over

Toward the end of the story the fighting does stop when lawyer's fees, which they had been charging to the estate, at last empty it. This is announced publicly in court, and the attorneys respond by flinging their piles of paper into the air, one of a few comic scenes in the novel.

FYA, this modus vivendi is still being practiced -- see the litigation around the estate of O.J. Simpson.