A nine million settlement that can't ever be paid.  The old man is sent off to prison at a cost to taxpayers of $1.5 million and is thus unable to make any money to settle the litigation.  Sell all the properties and give it all to the one girl and what have we done.  Deprived all the other siblings of the inheritance they would have received and still not satisfying the judgment.  But hey, the most important thing is to act out to feel good.  We do things that are ultimately destructive to the majority because it feels good.