Harriet Griffin Harris, 66, of Bartow, 60 miles south of Downtown Orlando, has until Dec. 2 to appeal a state judge's ruling which divided an estimated $500 million estate five ways. Four sisters each would own assets valued at $75 million. The value of their brother's assets would be $200 million.

Harris alleges her three sisters conspired with other family members to undervalue the estate of their late grandfather, Ben Hill Griffin Jr., a cattle, citrus and land baron who died in 1990. Harris wants a court to void a settlement made in March of this year after a three-day trial.

But Polk County Circuit Judge Michael Hunter, who has studied the feud since it began in 1991, finds no evidence to support Harris' allegations. The judge has given her 30 days from his last ruling on Nov. 2 to appeal his final decision to the Second District Court of Appeal in nearby Lakeland, FL.

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