A family that believes in 'every man for himself'.
One of my clients passed away last year. He left his literary estate to his three adult children, but he didn't specify which titles should go to which sibling, and the siblings didn't want us continue managing the estate. As in, they want to sell their 'shares' of the estate themselves. So they came in to divide the estate among themselves. Certain titles are still profitable and the rest aren't, and they knew it.
Two brothers were so determined to nab all six most profitable titles that they traded insults and accusations. They also tried to force their sister to accept least-profitable titles as her share. She knew what they were doing, but clearly had no confidence to speak up for herself. I kept wanting to tell her that she should end the meeting and get a solicitor to represent her in another meeting, but it wasn't my place to advise anyone. I was only there to answer their questions about their late father's estate. Current licence agreements, publishing history and so on.
It was truly irritating to see the siblings so nasty toward each other. Could they not calm down and be reasonable? Such as divide six most profitable titles as two titles per sibling, and divide the rest equally? I think they did consider this, but they didn't trust us in case one is actually more valuable than the other, even though there are royalty statements to back us up. Urgh.