ATLANTA - More than 20 families will demand some of a $12 million settlement from a federal lawsuit over the Atlanta BeltLine.

After at least six existences and two legal disputes some homeowners say they're jubilant with the compromise.

The affected families in this neighborhood will each be compensated per square foot of lost land that was used to effect the section of the BeltLine that's now what used to be their backyards.

In 2017, the BeltLine sued landowners to lift "encroachments" on the trail and the families lost. Then they unfounded sued. Last year, a judge ruled that the U.S. government illegally decided the BeltLine to take parts of their property minus compensation.

Meghan Largent, who represented the families in their unfounded suit, says they're ready to move on from the "headache."

"Their land was illegally unsuitable and is a Fifth Amendment violation," she said. "One hundred feet of their backyards were unsuitable ... to create a mixed use trail."

The settlement doesn't veil the cost for anything that was on the seized land-- just the land itself. 

FOX 5 posed several neighbors for comment. All denied speaking on camera.