Sons, mistress tussle over $7m house
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Madam Ling Ai Wah, 60, who lived with Dr Wong Yip Cheong, 81, for 36 years, stands to own the Chancery Hill Road house (above) upon his death. Dr Wong is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Dr Wong founded and built Adam Road Hospital and testified in famous court cases as an expert witness.
A TRIAL - over ownership of a Chancery Hill Road house worth more than $7 million - starts today.
It will pit two sons of once prominent psychiatrist Wong Yip Cheong against his long-time mistress. Dr Wong, 81, now suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
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So the show, it begins...
lol
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'Chancery Hill Rd house lawsuit' begins
SINGAPORE: Dr Wong Meng Leong, the second son of prominent psychiatrist Dr Wong Yip Cheong, took the stand on Monday as the first witness in a lawsuit over a S$7 million Chancery Hill Road house.
Two of Dr Wong Yip Cheong's sons are suing his long-time mistress, Mdm Ling Ai Wah, and her son over the ownership of the house.
Dr Wong Yip Cheong, who has been suffering from Alzheimier's disease since 2002, had signed a document in 2004 to make her a joint owner of the house.
But his sons now want the High Court to declare that document void.
During Dr Wong Meng Leong's cross examination on Monday by Mdm Ling's lawyer, Mr Cavinder Bull, it was heard that Mdm Ling was not notified when an application was made in 2005 to form a Committee of Persons of the Person and Estate for Dr Wong Yip Cheong.
This is done to manage the assets of a mentally incompetent person.
Dr Wong Meng Leong and his elder brother sit on the committee with Mr Wong Meng Weng, the son of Dr Wong Yip Cheong and Mdm Ling.-- TODAY
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Court hearing on family tussle over S$7m house continues
SINGAPORE : The testimony of the second son of once-prominent psychiatrist, Dr Wong Yip Cheong, was questioned for the second day of a civil suit involving ownership of a S$7 million house.
Two of Dr Wong's sons, Meng Leong and Meng Cheong, are suing their father's long-time mistress Mdm Ling Ai Wah and her son over the house on Chancery Hill Road.
Meng Leong, 49, took the stand for the second day on Tuesday.
Mdm Ling's lawyer, Senior Counsel Cavinder Bull, argued that Meng Leong was inconsistent in his affidavit as he had medically certified his father to be fit for driving in 2001.
But in the affidavit tendered last year, he said that his father would drive in a "very erratic" manner.
The court also heard about another property at Goldhill Avenue, where Meng Leong and his mother are currently residing.
Justice Lai Siu Chiu remarked that an easier alternative would be to mortgage this house to gather funds for their father's expenses than to sever the joint ownership of the Chancery Hill Road property.
The hearing continues.
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Son claims he is fighting for dad's interest in $7m house lawsuit
SINGAPORE: One of the sons testifying in the High Court on the ownership of a S$7 million house said he was going to court to stand up for the interests of his father and not to pick on his father's mistress.
Dr Wong Meng Leong, 49, the second son of psychiatrist, Dr Wong Yip Cheong, 81, told the High Court on Thursday morning that his father had not divorced his mother Mdm Tan Kim Yam so that she can hold on to her matrimonial rights and be well-taken care of.
Mdm Tan suffers from schizophrenia.
Meng Leong said: "If the other woman (Mdm Ling Ai Wah, 60) arranges for large segments of the estate to be transferred out to her, to my mind, that is inequitable."
He pointed out that his father had provided well for Mdm Ling over the years to ensure that she was not disadvantaged because she cannot have the same legal protection as a lawfully married wife.
Meng Leong and his elder brother, Dr Wong Meng Cheong, 54, are asking the High Court to declare void a 2004 document, which his father signed, to make Mdm Ling the joint owner of the Chancery Hill Road house.
The hearing will resume on Thursday afternoon with the third son of Dr Wong taking the stand.
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Dad strayed 'due to wife's mental illness'
HIS wife's schizophrenia was a factor that led once-prominent psychiatrist Wong Yip Chong to start a relationship with his then clinic assistant, who went on to become his long-time mistress, the High Court heard yesterday.
Despite his relationship with Madam Patricia Ling Ai Wah, Dr Wong promised his wife that he would not divorce her and that he would take care of her.
This emerged when the lawyer for Madam Ling's son with Dr Wong sought to show that because she had no legal rights, being 'the other woman', the psychiatrist had reassured her that he would give her the house that is now at the centre of the suit.
Dr Wong's sons from his wife - neurologist Meng Cheong, 54, and locum general practitioner Meng Leong, 49 - have sued Madam Ling.
They contend that Dr Wong, now 82 and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was mentally incapable of understanding a transfer document he signed in 2004 making her joint owner of the Chancery Hill Road house now valued at $7 million.
They want the document declared null and void. Alternatively, if the transfer was held to be valid, they want the ownership of the house to be converted from a joint tenancy to a tenancy-in-common.
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Wahhh...just like those HK serial Dramas....Hahaha!
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Suit involving S$7m Chancery Hill Road house enters fifth day
SINGAPORE: The two sons of a psychiatrist disagree on how seriously their father had been affected by Alzheimer's disease, the High Court heard on Friday morning. They are testifying in a suit involving a S$7 million Chancery Hill Road house, which belongs to their father, psychiatrist Dr Wong Yip Cheong, 81.
Proceedings entered its fifth day on Friday with his third son, psychiatrist Wong Meng Kong, 47, returning to the stand.
The court heard that in September 2000, he had sent an email to his father to tell him to prepare himself for being unable to drive in three to four years' time due to this condition. In the email, Meng Kong had also told his father to find an alternative to being dependent on his long-time mistress, Mdm Ling Ai Wah.
When presented with the email in the High Court by Senior Counsel Cavinder Bull on Friday morning, Meng Kong said he wrote the email because of his father's memory impairment. Mr Bull is representing Mr Wong Meng Weng, the son of Dr Wong and Mdm Ling.
Mr Bull then told Meng Kong that his elder brother, Dr Wong Meng Leong, 49, had certified their father fit to drive in 2001. When asked by Mr Bull if Meng Leong got the diagnosis wrong, Meng Kong said that his brother was "rather lenient in his assessment."
Meng Leong and his elder brother, Dr Wong Meng Cheong, 54, are suing Mdm Ling and Meng Weng over a 2004 document which their father signed to make Mdm Ling the joint owner of the house. The brothers want the transfer to be declared void and claim that Dr Wong had made the transfer under undue influence.
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i think the doctor-sons are disgusting
please give the house to the one who took care of him whom he loved
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let thom lose and pay court fees
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and guys, please make your will or sign whatever transfer before you become a senile old man
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As the case unfolds, one gets a better all-round perspective. Dr Wong Yip Cheong was very capable and productive till 2004 though he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002. He had provided well for his wife and children as well as his mistress and her son. That includes property for all in Spore and overseas. All appeared to be amicable and happy until the Committee of Persons was formed in 2005. That's when the brothers start to look at what the 82-yr old patriarch owned and gave. The mistress got Chancery Hill bungalow and half-share in an apartment which is rented out. The transfer was only effected in 2004 though it was a long-standing desire of the patriarch to give the properties to his mistress.
The motivations to sue by the two sons were obvious. They stand to gain if their claims succeed. They claimed to act for their father's interest and for his protection against the 'other' family. The old man was taken from his mistress' care and the eldest son now acts very filial by caring for him. And he charged his father for the care - lodging and inflated utilities.
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If i am the judge, I would make them go be a begger. Your lao pek money or lao gong money dun touch. Go earn money yourself. All will be donated to temasek holdings.
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Originally posted by QX179R:
Suit involving S$7m Chancery Hill Road house enters fifth day
SINGAPORE: The two sons of a psychiatrist disagree on how seriously their father had been affected by Alzheimer's disease, the High Court heard on Friday morning. They are testifying in a suit involving a S$7 million Chancery Hill Road house, which belongs to their father, psychiatrist Dr Wong Yip Cheong, 81.
Proceedings entered its fifth day on Friday with his third son, psychiatrist Wong Meng Kong, 47, returning to the stand.
The court heard that in September 2000, he had sent an email to his father to tell him to prepare himself for being unable to drive in three to four years' time due to this condition. In the email, Meng Kong had also told his father to find an alternative to being dependent on his long-time mistress, Mdm Ling Ai Wah.
When presented with the email in the High Court by Senior Counsel Cavinder Bull on Friday morning, Meng Kong said he wrote the email because of his father's memory impairment. Mr Bull is representing Mr Wong Meng Weng, the son of Dr Wong and Mdm Ling.
Mr Bull then told Meng Kong that his elder brother, Dr Wong Meng Leong, 49, had certified their father fit to drive in 2001. When asked by Mr Bull if Meng Leong got the diagnosis wrong, Meng Kong said that his brother was "rather lenient in his assessment."
Meng Leong and his elder brother, Dr Wong Meng Cheong, 54, are suing Mdm Ling and Meng Weng over a 2004 document which their father signed to make Mdm Ling the joint owner of the house. The brothers want the transfer to be declared void and claim that Dr Wong had made the transfer under undue influence.
-CNA/acIf i got a beast son like that. I leave 1 m to my old wife. Son go fuck off. Others go to charity.
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Rich people all have such problems....
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Rich or poor, 'money no enough' is the problem. Greed is the word. This case is about properties to the tune of at least $10million. At the centre is the allegation that the mistress coerced the old man to transfer title and that the poor old man was suffering dementia thus not mentally capable of making the decision. The transfer was made in 2004 so all hell starts from that date. Lawyers for defendants went all out to demolish the plaintiffs’ assertions and witnesses’ evident that the patriarch Wong was mentally diminished. But this old man who played more than one, was still seeing about 40 patients a day till he retired in 2005.
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the man's not even dead yet, and already, they are fighting over his assets ....
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The tussle enters the fourth week of hearing. Maid and medical experts have testified. Claims and counter-claims were made. Interesting intimate details were aired. Experts do not agree with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and whether forgetfulness has an impact on a person's ability to understand and make decision. The case rest squarely on the testimony of the lawyer who took his client's instruction to make the transfer.
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has judgement been passed? care to elaborate further on the intimacy action, and what happen in the end?
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Father has not passed on and they started the conflict. They should be optimistic on his father condition and look for way and mean to help his father recovered from illness
Even if there are squarely shared on the 7m also better off than majority of singapore pple. Actually, they can shared 6m amongst 3 of them, and the 1m to donate to charity, such as offering free / lost cost clinic, hospital, 慈济 and other charity organ. -
Oral judgment was delivered today. Judge commented it was a sad case, a tragedy akin to the Shakespeare play King Lear. The plaintiffs were not acting in the interest of their sick father, Dr Wong Yip Cheong. As members of the Committee of Persons, they went to court to seek orders to severe the property jointly owned by WYC and his mistress. Their reason was that their father had no money and there were outstanding bills to be paid. They are also contending their father was not mentally capable of making the transfer decision in 2004 or was under undue influence by the mistress. They wanted the court to declare the property transfer null and void. The judge dismissed the suit with costs to be borne personally by the plaintiffs. The court found Dr Wong Yip Cheong was not as severely incapacitated as made out by expert witnesses for the plaintiffs. In fact, the expert witnesses were hardly acting as expert and the actions and claims of the plaintiffs were questionable.
During the closing submissions, the plaintiff decided to return the $1 million to the estate, which would go a long way to cover medical expenses of WYC. Also, $3.7 million was owed to WYC by the company he founded and for which he had gifted the shares to his children.
Also, the summons to expel the plaintiffs from the COP was granted. That means there is only one son (by the mistress) in the COP. The court also granted the mistress the right to decide in conjunction with the COP how WYC will be taken care of (which unfortunately may not be long).
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best to have no family, no sons.. really!
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Originally posted by cyberr1981:
best to have no family, no sons.. really!
King Lear had 3 daughters.
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Bid to void transfer of S$7 million Chancery Hill house dismissed
SINGAPORE: If he knew his two sons were taking his long-time mistress to court in a tussle for his property, once-prominent psychiatrist Wong Yip Cheong would be "heartbroken", a High Court judge said on Monday.
In dismissing a bid by the plaintiffs to declare void their father's move to make Madam Patricia Ling Ai Wah joint owner of a S$7 million property along Chancery Hill Road, Justice Lai Siu Chiu noted that Dr Wong, 82, who now suffers from Alzheimer's disease, had lived there with her "as man and wife" for almost 30 years.
Except in name, the plaintiffs' mother, Madam Tan Kim Yam, has not been considered by Dr Wong as his wife for the better part of 50 years, pointed out Justice Lai at the conclusion of a 23-day hearing, during which the court heard details of the relationship between Dr Wong and his two families.
The two plaintiffs, neurologist Meng Cheong, 54, and locum general practitioner Meng Leong, 49, had contended that their father was already stricken with Alzheimer's disease and had been unduly influenced by Mdm Ling, 60, when he signed the transfer deed in December 2004.
They asked that the transfer be declared void or, failing which, for the joint ownership to be converted into a shared tenancy.
But Justice Lai noted that the evidence presented in court painted a different picture. For instance, Dr Wong was still treating patients and generated some S$3 million in income for Adam Road Hospital, which he had founded, that year.
The judge also criticised the plaintiffs for using Dr Wong's incapacity to "wrest as much of his assets as they could".
She removed Meng Cheong and Meng Leong from being members of the Committee of Persons of the Person and Estate of Dr Wong, leaving the second defendant, their half-brother Meng Weng, 35, as the only member.
But Justice Lai also made an unusual order: Mdm Ling's decisions concerning how Dr Wong would be cared for - whether to bring him home or send him to hospital - would prevail, saying it was "only right" given their relationship.
Meng Cheong, who had in 2006 obtained some S$1million of his father's money as repayment of loans he had made to him for his medical upkeep, was also ordered to refund the money to his estate.
The two plaintiffs also have to pay all of Mdm Ling's legal costs out of their own pockets.-- TODAY
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It's really triest to see this happening because of money issues.