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Singapore businessman cancels $9m divorce deal after discovering first-born child is not his
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The man sued his ex-wife because he was so incensed for being kept in the dark for over two decades.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANUEL FRANCISCO
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- A businessman nullified a $9.3 million divorce settlement after discovering he wasn't the biological father of his ex-wife's first child.
- The High Court agreed that the division of matrimonial assets should be revaluated because the ex-wife failed to disclose the child's paternity
- The court determined that the matrimonial assets should be valued as at July 10, 2014, the date of the initial divorce ruling.
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SINGAPORE - A wealthy businessman scuttled a $9 million divorce settlement that was signed with his ex-wife almost a decade ago because he discovered that his first-born child was fathered by someone else.
The shocking discovery happened six years after the divorce when the child was about 20 years old. It was not disclosed how the man discovered that he was not the biological father after having been kept in the dark for over two decades during his marriage.
