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The years-long war between Minnie Driver and her neighbor, regarding their shared property border, has finally come to an end.

The actress and her neighbor Daniel Perelmutter have agreed on a settlement in the dispute, according to legal documents seen by TMZ.

Details of the settlement have not been revealed in the papers but sources connected to both parties told the website that 'money did change hands'.

Long time coming: Minnie Driver has reached a settlement with her neighbor in their years-long and very ugly driveway dispute

The case was due to go to a three-week trial this month and the duo had been criticized for letting it escalate so far.

A Los Angeles judge took a swipe at the duo just weeks ago for allowing their petty dispute go to a jury trial.

The trial was going to last several weeks, involve at least eight witnesses and a half dozen high-priced lawyers.

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LA Superior Court Judge Rita Miller expressed her 'disappointment' in court Thursday that Driver, 48, and her 76 year-old Hollywood Hills neighbor couldn't settle their differences out of court.

She said: 'These neighbor disputes are so unpleasant because people get so personally involved.'

Peering over her glasses at the six attorneys who showed up for a pre-trial hearing, she added: 'The jury is going to say, "All these lawyers - they're making a Federal case out of this."

Face-off: Daniel Perelmutter and Minnie Driver share a driveway between their Hollywood Hills, California, properties but are have long been at odds

In contention: The driveway which the case revolved around is between their two homes and also shared with two other neighbors who are also suing Perelmutter

And with a chuckle, the judge joked, 'The heart of this case is who's richer than who, I guess.'

But Judge Miller urged all the lawyers in court to 'stick to facts and not legal terms' to make it simple for the jury at trial, which was scheduled for April 9. 

The vicious feud between the British actress and Perelmutter had been raging for more than three years.

Last year Driver won a major court victory when he was found guilty of contempt for narrowing the driveway to build a wall.

But when he lost that case, grandfather-of-seven Perelmutter brought a fresh suit against Driver.

Disputed: Perelmutter was found guilty of contempt in November 2016 for reducing the width of the driveway from 20 to 14 feet in order to make room to build a wall around his new house

He accused the 'Speechless' actress of 'outrageous and malicious' behavior, screaming insults and obscenities at him, driving at him in her car, causing $20,000 worth of damage to his property and threatening to have his construction workers 'deported.'

And the army veteran and heart transplant survivor claimed that after winning her lawsuit against him last year, he videotaped Driver 'gloating…. telling him that she was so glad he got 'f***ed', and wishing that he lose everything as a result.'

When Driver first bought her three-bedroom home on Woodrow Wilson Drive - for just under $2.5 million - in September 2014, relations between her and next door neighbor Perelmutter were 'cordial,' he says in court documents.

He even said yes when she asked if she could install a gate across their shared driveway 'to keep out the paparazzi.'

But 'trouble began almost immediately' in December 2014 when he started building an ultra-modern home on his property bordering that shared driveway.

Things went down hill from there.

Who's going to pay for the wall? Perelmutter's decision to build underlies the three-week long jury trial which has now been averted

Perelmutter claimed that Driver trespassed on and damaged his property, engaged in a 'campaign of harassment' against him in protest against a house he was building next door, and 'intentionally inflicted emotional distress' on him

At one point during the years-long feud, Perelmutter accused Driver of vandalizing the wall by throwing baby food jars filled with black paint at it

The long running court battle began when Driver - accusing Perelmutter of, among many other things, frightening her and her son, Henry, now nine - took out a restraining order against him in 2015.

When that failed to end the feud, Driver went to Los Angeles Superior Court again in November 2016.

And this time she won. Perelmutter was found guilty of contempt for reducing the width of the driveway from 20 to 14 feet in order to make room to build a wall around his new house.

At a sentencing hearing two months later, LA Superior Court Judge Mark Borenstein ordered Perelmutter to move the offending wall - or go to jail. And he was also fined $1,000, ordered to do 10 hours of community service and pay Driver's $200,000-plus attorney fees.

To avoid ending up behind bars, Perelmutter reluctantly knocked down the wall and rebuilt it six feet closer to his house, widening the driveway he shares with Driver back to it's original 20 feet.

But even at his January 2017 sentencing hearing - Perelmutter, who walks around with a crooked driftwood cane, continued to lash out at Driver, saying that she 'perjured herself in every way with her testimony of complete lies,' putting on a 'performance worthy of an Oscar winner.' 

Driver shares the Hollywood Hills home with her art writer boyfriend Neville Wakefield. They're pictured together in April 2016

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