MONTREAL - Lawyers representing Amanda Rodrigues and relatives of Arturo Gatti are taking their argument out of the courtroom.
Both sides are attempting to negotiate a settlement to the dispute which threatens to consume Gatti's estate in legal fees.
Court proceedings have been suspended, while the opposing parties and their lawyers huddle in negotiations in Montreal.
The lawyers have said they will talk throughout Tuesday, and meet again Wednesday morning before announcing the result of the talks.
The decision to talk represents a sudden reversal, given the bitter battle pitting the boxing champ's widow against his family.
Just a few days ago a judge pleaded with them to put aside their enmity and share what was left of Gatti's fast-dwindling fortune.
But his widow, Amanda Rodrigues, defiantly declared she would not settle.
The dispute erupted quickly after Gatti's 2009 death at a Brazilian resort.
The boxer's family does not accept the conclusion of Brazilian authorities that he committed suicide. And they reject the legitimacy of the will, signed just weeks before his death, that left everything to Rodrigues.
The couple had been having volcanic arguments and had apparently both consulted divorce lawyers.
The Gattis point out that, under the terms of a prenuptial agreement, Rodrigues would have been left without a penny had the couple divorced.
They say the boxer's true feelings were represented in an older will that left everything to them; however, the Gattis cannot produce a signed copy of that will.
Even a resolution to the Rodrigues-Gatti case would not completely end the legal saga over the late boxer's fortune.
The mother of Gatti's eldest child has filed a wrongful-death suit in New Jersey, alleging that Rodrigues either killed Gatti or worked with accomplices to do so.
With files from The Canadian Press
