Category: Family & Matrimonial
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Disputes Between Co-Owners of A Property And A First Right of Refusal To Buy Over The Other’s Share
This article is part of our Uncertainty of Litigation Series, highlighting with articles about previous court decisions as well as the experiences of lawyers and clients, how commonly unpredictable cases can be when fought in court.
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The House You and Your Spouse Are Living In May Not Be Your Matrimonial Home
By Chloe Chua of OTP Law Corporation To most couples, their matrimonial home is simply the place where they reside together. The legal concept is straightforward: a matrimonial home is one where a couple has purchased a property in which they subsequently stay in for an extended period of time during the marriage. However, it…
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Key Amendments to the Women’s Charter – Part 2 Enforcement of Orders Relating to Children and Other Amendments
The Women’s Charter amendments enhance enforcement of custody and access orders, promote co-parenting support, and establish equal rights for married individuals, aiming to improve therapeutic justice within family proceedings.
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Key Amendments to the Women’s Charter – Part 1 Divorce By Mutual Agreement-and Related Amendments
The latest amendments to the Women’s Charter and other programs supporting families, were motivated by the government’s “priority to save marriages where possible”. However, where divorce is inevitable, the priority is to have “therapeutic justice and child-centricity be fostered and brought to the fore to reduce acrimony, bring about healing, and allow divorcees and their…
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The Road to Second Parent Adoption – Aided by The EU-ASEAN Connect
All families are different. Unfortunately, not all families are equal. When Elo and I met more than 9 years ago, we fell in love. Just like any other couple, we had dreams of starting a family one day and growing old together. As two women from two different countries, we knew that our chosen life…
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Therapeutic Justice in Family Cases: The Neutral Evaluator (Part 6)
By Susan Tay, Founding Partner of OTP Law Corporation & Co-Founder of PracticeForte Pte Ltd This is the 6th part of a series on therapeutic justice and how it may be applied in family cases in Singapore. You may read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here and Part 5…
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Therapeutic Justice in Family Cases: The Mediation Advocate (Part 5)
By Susan Tay, Founding Partner of OTP Law Corporation, Founder of PracticeForte Pte Ltd This is the 5th part of a series on therapeutic justice and how it may be applied in family cases in Singapore. You may read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here and Part 4 here. In these parts,…
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UZN v UZM – Dissipation of Assets and Adverse Inference– A Lawyer’s Perspective Part 2
This is a case of a 14-year childless marriage when the husband had initiated divorce. Highly acrimonious, by the time of the Court of Appeal (CA) judgment, proceedings had been ongoing for 6 years. With no children issues, the ancillary matters dealt mainly with how matrimonial assets should be split, maintenance and costs. The wife…
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UZN v UZM – Dissipation of Assets and Adverse Inference: A Lawyer’s Perspective Part 1
By Susan Tay, Director of OTP Law Corporation This is my article on the case of UZN v UZM. You can read the one from the perspective of a forensic accountant, Wan Yew Fai of Strix Strategies Pte Ltd, here. Both Wan Yew Fai and I are part of PracticeForte Advisory, a multi-disciplinary grouping of…
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UZN vs UZM: Undisclosed Assets and Adverse Inference- A Forensic Accountant’s Perspective
In matrimonial cases, it is not uncommon that one spouse will hide assets from the other spouse, especially when the marriage is on the rocks. If this were a corporate or commercial case, that would likely have been classified as “cheating” and be deemed a criminal act. Between a husband and wife however, the recourse…
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Therapeutic Justice in Family Cases : The Mediator (Part 4)
By Susan Tay, Founding Partner of OTP Law Corporation, Co-Founder of PracticeForte Pte Ltd This is the 4th part of a series on therapeutic justice and how it may be applied in family cases in Singapore. You may read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here. In these parts, we dealt 1stly with…
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Therapeutic Justice in Family Cases : Forensic Accountants (Part 3)
By PracticeForte Advisory Affiliate Shirley Tay of 10.10 Consultants Pte Ltd. Law, divorce, litigation, suits — nobody would ever consider these circumstances ‘therapeutic’. These terms are more likely to induce stress, anger, fights, arguments, disputes and many other negative emotions. So how did the concept of Therapeutic Jurisprudence [or “TJ”] come to be, what role does therapy…
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