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Published: 10:21pm, 15 Oct 2024Updated: 12:03am, 16 Oct 2024
The mother of late Cantopop diva Anita Mui Yim-fong is facing the prospect of being declared bankrupt for a second time after Hong Kong’s justice minister applied to a court to have the centenarian’s assets liquidated.
Tam Mei-kam, who turned 100 earlier this year, was named the debtor in a High Court bankruptcy petition listed on the court’s cause book on Tuesday. It was filed a day earlier on behalf of the secretary for justice.
The subject matter of the petition was not immediately clear as the filing was not open to public inspection.
A first hearing has been scheduled for December 17, the judiciary website shows.
Tam was first declared bankrupt in April 2012 for defaulting on a payment of HK$2.24 million (US$288,400) to her lawyers after losing a high-profile legal battle over the late singer’s estate. That order was automatically discharged four years later.
Pop star Anita Mui’s will stated that her estate should be managed by an HSBC trust fund and that her mother be paid a monthly allowance during her lifetime. Photo: SCMP 30 April 2003
The elderly woman had been wholly dependent financially on Mui, who died of cervical cancer in 2003 at the age of 40.
Mui’s will stated that her estate should be managed by an HSBC trust fund and that her mother be paid a monthly allowance during her lifetime, after which the remaining balance would be distributed to a Buddhist organisation.
The initial monthly sum of HK$120,000 has since risen to more than HK$200,000, a result of either the court’s order or an agreement between Tam and the trustee.
Tam has made multiple applications to the High Court in the hope of receiving a lump sum from the estate in lieu of periodical payments, but none of her attempts has succeeded.
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The mother of late Cantopop diva Anita Mui Yim-fong is facing the prospect of being declared bankrupt for a second time after Hong Kong’s justice minister applied to a court to have the centenarian’s assets liquidated.
Tam Mei-kam, who turned 100 earlier this year, was named the debtor in a High Court bankruptcy petition listed on the court’s cause book on Tuesday. It was filed a day earlier on behalf of the secretary for justice.
The subject matter of the petition was not immediately clear as the filing was not open to public inspection.
A first hearing has been scheduled for December 17, the judiciary website shows.
Tam was first declared bankrupt in April 2012 for defaulting on a payment of HK$2.24 million (US$288,400) to her lawyers after losing a high-profile legal battle over the late singer’s estate. That order was automatically discharged four years later.
Pop star Anita Mui’s will stated that her estate should be managed by an HSBC trust fund and that her mother be paid a monthly allowance during her lifetime. Photo: SCMP 30 April 2003
The elderly woman had been wholly dependent financially on Mui, who died of cervical cancer in 2003 at the age of 40.
Mui’s will stated that her estate should be managed by an HSBC trust fund and that her mother be paid a monthly allowance during her lifetime, after which the remaining balance would be distributed to a Buddhist organisation.
The initial monthly sum of HK$120,000 has since risen to more than HK$200,000, a result of either the court’s order or an agreement between Tam and the trustee.
Tam has made multiple applications to the High Court in the hope of receiving a lump sum from the estate in lieu of periodical payments, but none of her attempts has succeeded.
