GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Clock Running for Feuding Griffin Sisters

BARTOW, FL-The Griffin business and real estate family of Polk County, one of the most prominent and wealthiest in Florida, is nearing an end to three years of internal strife that has permanently ruptured family relations and publicly laid bare their closely guarded financials.

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.