A grandmother will be 'turned out' of her £2.5million country home after losing a 'sad' and 'ruinously expensive' court fight with her daughter.
Jane Habberfield, 82, could be forced to sell the family estate in Yeovil, Somerset, to pay off her daughter Lucy, 51.
But Lord Justice Lewison told the pensioner her 'desperately difficult situation was of her own making' after the family feud dragged on for years.
Lucy was her late father Frank's 'blue-eyed girl' but 'never had a good relationship' with mother, London's Appeal Court heard.
After her father died she insisted she should have been given a large share of the farm where she had worked long hours for 30 years.
But her continued to fight her in court, even after a judge ruled she pay her £1.1million compensation for her service on the farm.
Jane Habberfield, 82, and her daughter Lucy, 51 (right) are in a legal fight over the family farm
Lucy, who grafted long hours on their family farm for 30 years - including doing 80-hour weeks milking cows when she was heavily pregnant - sued her mother after she refused to hand her ownership of the farm following her father's death in 2014.
She said her parents had promised she would be given the farm and last year a judge ordered mother Jane to pay her daughter over £1.1million to compensate her for devoting her life to the family holding and the cows.
Today, the elderly woman lost her appeal against that order and will be 'turned out of her home' due to the cost of losing the 'ruinously expensive litigation,' said Lord Justice Lewison.
Mother Jane is backed by her elder daughter Sarah, who previously fought with Jane in a cowshed
The court heard that tensions had been already building between mother, daughter and her sister Sarah - who a judge found 'all have a temper' - before a scrap between the sisters in a cowshed at 220-acre Woodrow Farm pushed things to crisis point.
The milking parlour fight in 2013 led to Lucy storming out of the family holding where she had worked since she was a schoolgirl, and subsequently filing a court claim for the farm she said she was promised.
In her challenge to Lucy's £1.1million payout, her mother claimed her estranged daughter got far too much of the family wealth, saying she wanted her share cut to around £220,000 to be 'fair' to her other children, Sarah, and Andrew and Emma.
Mrs Habberfield also pleaded with the judges to allow her to pay her daughter out of her estate when she dies if they ruled the £1.1million order had to stand.
It would otherwise force her to sell the farmland and farmhouse, losing her home and livelihood in her twilight years, she said.
But Lord Justice Lewison today said that, although it was
