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Families at war
Yeah the house price is included
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/20/famil...tage-18469577/
A feuding family has racked up a £1 million legal bill in a raging dispute over a renovated cottage.
Pamela Teasdale, 68, told her husband, Daniel, 73, she wanted to divorce him after 44 years of marriage – leading to a tense four-year legal battle which ‘fractured’ the family.
The mum-of-two wanted to continue to live at Burne Farm in Todwick, South Yorkshire, in order to start a livery business, MailOnline reports.
This is despite Mr Teasdale’s family having run the farm for three generations, and offering Ms Teasdale a lump sum payoff.
But it was a recently renovated barn their daughter Rebecca Carter, 45, lived in with her husband and daughter that lead to major complications.
Both parents were happy for their daughter and her family to stay at Cow House cottage, which had undergone a major £200,000 revamp.
A row was sparked as Mr and Ms Teasdale and their daughter argued over who could claim legal ownership of the home.
Mrs Carter said she had been paying the mortgage for years, but her mum insisted it was just rent.
The argument became so bitter Ms Teasdale accused her own daughter of planting a listening device in her lounge.
Judge Gordon Shelton said it was a ‘tragedy’ no amicable agreement was reached, and it was ‘one of the most regrettable pieces of litigation he had ever come across’.
A nine-day High Court hearing followed by a two-day appeal hearing, with all three family members represented by expensive legal teams, led to a total legal bill of £1,048,000.
Judge Shelton, backed by the appeal judge Mr Justice Moor, ruled the parents promised the cottage to their daughter.
However, they refused Mrs Carter’s bid to stop her mum’s future livery business because it would ‘disturb their peace’.
The couple remain living under the same roof, with their daughter and her family also on the farming property.
It is still undecided who shall live where.
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