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$4.8m dispute: Widow wants to move on

Posted on 18 Oct 2009 | Comments Off

The property at the centre of the tussle has since been demolished and rebuilt. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

Madam Chen (left) and her late husband’s elder brother had been involved in a court dispute over a $4.8 million property. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

It has been more than four years since her husband and son died in a tragic fashion, but thinking about them still brings tears to her eyes.

‘It’s like stabbing a knife in my heart each time I talk and think about what happened,’ Madam Chen Tsui Yu, 56, said in Mandarin yesterday. Continue reading →

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Tagged Charles Loo Chay Loo, Legal News, Loo Chay Sit, Margate Road property

Dispute over dead man’s house resolved

Posted on 16 Oct 2009 | Comments Off

Wife will keep the $4.8m proceeds from property which his brother sold

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. (left) — ST FILE PHOTOS

Mr Loo Chay Sit claimed that he had paid for the property and his late brother had held it in trust for him (right)– ST FILE PHOTOS

THE wife of a Singaporean who died in a United States jail will get to keep the $4.8million from a house sold by his elder brother but which she said was owned by her husband.

The Margate Road property at the centre of the ownership spat was registered in the younger Mr Charles Loo Chay Loo’s name when it was bought in 1979 but the elder Mr Loo Chay Sit and their parents had lived there since 1999. Continue reading →