Cost of a Divorce in Spore

[Picanto]

How much can a wife expect to receive when her marriage breaks down?

 

Typically, a divorced tai-tai will claim monthly maintenance between $15,000 to $30,000 from their high net-worth husbands, according to a Straits Times report.

 

Middle-class divorcees generally do not claim more than $10,000.

 

A maintenance order may be made before, during and after divorce proceedings, where the Court may either order the husband to give a monthly allowance, or a lump sum payment as maintenance.

 

The court will typically consider the following circumstances when making the Order:

- The family's financial needs

- The wife's earning capacity and other financial resources

- The wife's physical or mental disability, and

- The standard of living enjoyed by the family before the husband neglected or refused to provide maintenance

(Above information sourced from You & The Law 3)

 

What expenses can an ex-spouse's monthly maintenance be used to cover?

 

These can include:

 

- Maintenance of property,

 

- Groceries,

 

- Domestic help,

 

- Personal grooming

 

- Shopping,

 

- Holidays

 

- Meals

 

For tai-tais, their big-ticket items could be

 

- First class air tickets costing $20,000 and more

 

- Holidays that can include trips to Europe,

 

- Stays in luxury hotels

 

- Regular shopping sprees at high-end boutiques that can come up to $5,000 or more each month

 

- Rental and loan payments on their homes

 

- Beauty treatments such as manicures and pedicures

 

- Visits to hair salons, all of which can cost up to $3,000

 

- Fine dining at restaurants every month which may set them back about $3,000

 

- Monthly maintenance covers the ex-wife's personal spending and is separate from maintenance of the couple's children from the marriage.

 

It also does not cover insurance and maintenance parents.

 

The following information has been sourced from You & The Law 3:

 

Division of Matrimonial Assets

The Court can order a division of assets or a sale of assets and divide the proceeds which it thinks is just and equitable upon a divorce

 

Matrimonial assets should be acquired during the marrige, and is used or enjoyed by both parties or one or more children. It can also refer to assets acquired before the marriage but substantially improved by one or both spouses.

 

Among other things, the Court can also transfer the assets from one spouse to the other, postpone the transfer or sale of the asset until the youngest child reaches independence, grant one spouse the right to live in a matrimonial home to the exclusion of the other, and order one party to pay the other.

 

 

Applying for an injunction

If a spouse disposes of properties with the intention of reducing his or her means to pay maintenance, or to deprive the other party of his/her right to the properties, the aggrieved party may apply for a Court injunction to prevent the disposal from taking place or to set aside the disposal within three years that the disposal was made.

 

The application for an injunction can be made when any matrimonial proceedings are pending, an order is made for the matrimonial assets to be divided, a maintenance order for the wife or child has been granted, and when maintenance is payable.

[Jman888]

rich people do go to jail, dun mess with the woman    

Man who hid S$4.5m of assets from ex-wife gets 8 months’ jail

By Valerie Koh, TODAY

Posted 11 Feb 2016 07:08

 

 

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean businessman who tried to hide about S$4.5 million of his assets to lessen the amount he had to pay his wife after their divorce, then wilfully defied court orders to pay up, was sentenced to eight months’ jail for contempt of court.

 

Even before filing for divorce, Zheng Zhuan Yao, formerly known as Tay Chuan Yao, secretly mortgaged their Stevens Court home, and pledged his shares to an aunt.

 

And after proceedings started in February 2010, Zheng continued to transfer his shares in various companies to other family members, including his father — Indonesian tycoon Tay Jui Chuan.

 

The court ordered Zheng to transfer the S$4.25 million matrimonial home — debt-free — to Madam Mok Kah Hong and pay maintenance of S$1.15 million in November 2013.

 

The Court of Appeal later ruled that while his known matrimonial assets were worth around S$14.4 million, Zheng’s estimated matrimonial assets were S$20 million, in view of his concealments, and raised Mdm Mok’s share of the assets to S$7.05 million in October 2014.

 

Zheng flouted the order and even defaulted on mortgage payments, leading to Mdm Mok being thrown out of the house. She then took action to jail him for contempt of court.

 

The apex court sentenced him to eight months’ jail last September, but also offered him “a final indulgence” by giving Zheng a month to cough up the money.

 

In a written judgement published on Wednesday, Justice Steven Chong said this was an unfortunate case involving two elements — concealed assets, and willful defiance of several judgements and orders made by the court.

 

The couple wedded in 1983 and have a 24-year-old son. But unknown to his ex-wife, Zheng also had two children with a mistress.

 

In convicting Zheng, Justice Chong said several legal principles had to be considered, including proving that the actions of the party alleged to have breached the court order were intentional. The motive was strictly irrelevant, said the judge.

 

He added that the courts have to be careful in applying the principle that committal proceedings should not be directed against parties with no or little means to pay up.

 

“It may be used as a smokescreen for the purposes of relitigating issues already determined by the court,” said Justice Chong.

 

In this case, Zheng had “steadfastly” claimed to be in debt, and had no means to comply with the court order. But Justice Chong noted that he had no documented evidence in support, and hence his claims “ring hollow”. “There is no question that the husband has the means to comply with the judgement,” he said.

 

Furthermore, a distinction had to be made between one-off and repeated breaches, and Zheng had a history of “acting in flagrant disregard” of judgements or orders made by various courts.

 

Justice Chong cited how Zheng had breached an injunction obtained by Mdm Mok by further mortgaging the Stevens Court property, and later caused her to be evicted from it. Apart from that, he made “sporadic payments” to her and failed to comply “substantially” with the maintenance order. The non-compliance was both deliberate and fraudulent, said Justice Chong.

 

“(Zheng) has concealed assets and embarked on a course of conduct that is calculated to defeat (Mdm Mok’s) entitlement to a share of the matrimonial assets in deliberate defiance of the court order,” said the judge.

 

“This calls for a sentence that is sufficient to adequately express the court’s opprobrium.”

 

Read the original TODAY report here. 

 

-TODAY/kk

 

 

 

[Sci10213]

 

rich people do go to jail, dun mess with the woman    

 

 

 

For this case, the husband is just a goondo ... rich but dun know how to engage professional legal people to teach him how to play number.

 

Was a flawed plan right from the start. Poor planning.

[Ttl1976]

For this case, the husband is just a goondo ... rich but dun know how to engage professional legal people to teach him how to play number.

 

Was a flawed plan right from the start. Poor planning.

Not say i m even at that level of rich.

May i seek your advice on how you would go about doing it? For reference purpose.

 

[Watwheels]

For this case, the husband is just a goondo ... rich but dun know how to engage professional legal people to teach him how to play number.

 

Was a flawed plan right from the start. Poor planning.

 

That's easy for you to say. For assets that cannot "see light" once found it's as good as tax evasion, money laundering etc. In other words sink into deeper sh!t. He's no fool. He should have parted with that money and have a clean break with his ex-wife. He still has half so it isn't a full lost and money can always be earned back as long as his companies are financially sound. IMO no amount of money can buy freedom it's rare to see that this man would rather go to jail dan give away half his money.

[Watwheels]

Not say i m even at that level of rich.

May i seek your advice on how you would go about doing it? For reference purpose.

 

 

Learn from living examples. Eg. Li Ka Shing's son, Richard, he must had took advise from his dad. He's already so old and yet he's unmarried, got loads of high profile gf and even got triplets from his actress ex-gf. Only gave her a property and some cash no need to share half of his assets. So if you are rich to begin with...yes to relationship but no to marriage. If die die want one make sure the wife sign a pre-nup.

[Hydrocarbon]

Learn from living examples. Eg. Li Ka Shing's son, Richard, he must had took advise from his dad. He's already so old and yet he's unmarried, got loads of high profile gf and even got triplets from his actress ex-gf. Only gave her a property and some cash no need to share half of his assets. So if you are rich to begin with...yes to relationship but no to marriage. If die die want one make sure the wife sign a pre-nup.

 

But Singapore, IIRC, Woman Charter takes precedence over pre-nup. So, can still be overturned by the court.

 

Aiyah, just start a business with his money, buy stuff from his family's companies, then go belly up. At least lesser money go to the ex-wife mah, haha...

[Watwheels]

But Singapore, IIRC, Woman Charter takes precedence over pre-nup. So, can still be overturned by the court.

 

Aiyah, just start a business with his money, buy stuff from his family's companies, then go belly up. At least lesser money go to the ex-wife mah, haha...

 

The key word is the court in Singapore makes the decision on how the assets will be split even if there's a pre-nup agreement. So it's at the mercy of the judge or judges more or less.

[Mercury1]

The key word is the court in Singapore makes the decision on how the assets will be split even if there's a pre-nup agreement. So it's at the mercy of the judge or judges more or less.

Family trust is the way to go haha

[Watwheels]

Family trust is the way to go haha

 

Singapore is pro-family. Best is stay single and go for a vasectomy. Coz even with children must fight for custody or else have to pay for maintenance. For singles the only thing to pay is tax to the govt. They pay higher tax dan any married person. You know what they say, pay and pay.

Edited February 12, 2016 by Watwheels

[Kusje]

The key word is the court in Singapore makes the decision on how the assets will be split even if there's a pre-nup agreement. So it's at the mercy of the judge or judges more or less.

 

What if you don't get married in Singapore?

 

Still under woman's charter or not?