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You have to pay her even if you die before her...
So if the situation is that the husband has cancer (let's say 35 years old), the wife can ask for lump sum payment?
Marriage is really like retirement scheme for women!
So if the situation is that the husband has cancer (let's say 35 years old), the wife can ask for lump sum payment?
Marriage is really like retirement scheme for women!
Their marriage may not have lasted forever but divorcee Chiam Heng Chow still owed his former wife a lifetime of maintenance.
At 72 years old, however, there was no telling how long his lifetime might be.
So when a court decided that Madam Foo Ah Yam should receive the money all at once, instead of in regular payments, it used an unusual method to work out the size of the lump sum.
It assumed that Mr Chiam will be around until the age of 79 - the average life expectancy of Singaporean men. This effectively gave him another seven years to live.