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Why an average of 10 families in Singapore fight over properties every year

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On the average, some 10 families would choose to slug it out in court annually because they could not agree that those who hold the properties in their names are the rightful owners.

On the average, some 10 families would choose to slug it out in court annually because they could not agree that those who hold the properties in their names are the rightful owners.

ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO

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If you have the impression that more families seem to be fighting over real estate in court, you are, sadly, not wrong.

There have been at least 130 such cases here in the past decade alone, meaning that an average of 10 families a year choose to slug it out in court because they could not agree on who the rightful owners of the bricks and mortar are.

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