Q My uncle and brother bought an HDB flat together as joint tenants. They paid the mortgage in full. My uncle died a few years ago, so my brother automatically became the sole owner of the flat. He married a Chinese national last year.
What can my brother do to prevent his wife from getting the [...]
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PROPERTY company PropNex is dropping its lawsuit against a couple who refused to pay the seller’s agent the 1 per cent commission after buying a home.
Both sides reached an agreement after a mediation session on Tuesday, which PropNex said yielded a ‘win-win’ conclusion. They declined to disclose the terms of the settlement.
If the case had [...]
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Wife of man who killed himself in US jail faces off against in-laws
A FAMILY is locked in a court tussle over two properties worth millions three years after a Singaporean businessman killed himself while awaiting trial for killing his adopted son.
One house - in Margate Road off Mountbatten Road - was in the name of [...]
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High Court to determine whether two properties should be returned to mother and son
Almost 30 years ago, when Mr Loo Chay Sit was going through a divorce after just a few years of marriage, he transferred a piece of newly-bought property at Margate Road near Katong to the name of his younger brother Chay Loo.
Years [...]
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Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) had won an appeal in a civil suit brought against it by a former sub-contractor and was awarded $8.1 million in damages. But in the latest twist to the four-year legal wrangle between JTC and sub-contractor Wishing Star, JTC will receive only $339,823.
The saga began in Nov 2003 when Hong Kong-based [...]
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The Court of Appeal has substantially slashed damages granted to JTC Corporation after its 2005 victory over Hong Kong contractor Wishing Star.
The Appeal Court, on Thursday, reduced JTC’s original award of $8.14 million damages to just $339,824 - and ordered it to pay three-quarters of costs.
The case has its roots in a contract dating back [...]
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THE Court of Three Judges is deliberating over how three lawyers should be taken to task for their roles in making a court wrongly pay out $4.27million.
In hearing the matter last Thursday, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said it was clear the court had been ‘made use of’.
The question though, said the CJ, was the [...]
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Three counsel have become the first this year to be referred to the Court of Three Judges, which hears cases of serious misconduct by lawyers. Law Correspondent K.C. Vijayan reports
SUSPENDED lawyer Vasantha Vardan will have to face the Court of Three Judges again on four new charges involving different clients - in circumstances similar to [...]
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Q I am the executor and trustee for the estate of my mother, who died in April 2006. Her estate is worth less than $600,000, and I have a certified true copy of her will.
Soon after my mother’s death, my father and I engaged her lawyer to prepare and file duty returns. However, it has [...]
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Q I AM a 29-year-old executive with no assets except for some small savings, several insurance plans that will pay out on my death and an HDB flat that I will eventually co-own with my older sister.
I am estranged from my father, who divorced my mother more than 10 years ago and has not supported [...]
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