Changes to law may add to problems

Straits Times Singapore, December 3, 2009, Thursday KIDS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK   I REFER to last Thursday’s report, ‘Court to mistress: Law can’t help you’, in which Judge of Appeal Chao Hick Tin was quoted as suggesting that the law be changed to protect innocent children born out of wedlock. I sympathise with the children caught in [...]

‘Favourite child’ wins dispute over will

Straits Times Singapore, October 23, 2009 Friday Youngest of 6 sole heir after judge upholds earlier will of matriarch By Selina Lum The late matriarch Madam Goh’s main asset was this Holland Road house valued at $13 million. — ST FILE PHOTO THE youngest of six siblings has won a court fight with her sister over their [...]

Dispute over dead man’s house resolved

Straits Times Singapore, October 16, 2009 Friday Wife will keep the $4.8m proceeds from property which his brother sold By K.C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent While Madam Chen could not prove that her husband had paid for the house, the court ruled in her favour based on the title deed. — ST FILE PHOTOS THE wife of a [...]