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Cao Rongrong's lawyer said the Singaporean man had "exploited her desperation and naivete for his own monetary gain".

The Straits Times HDB flat to be priced at market rate, not surrender value when couple split: Court The woman argued that the man should sell her his share of the flat based on its surrender value - the price at which a flat is sold back to the HDB.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG https://str.sg/JKcw They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you

This inaugural column dwells on a nagging problem in dealing with a jointly owned HDB flat post-divorce. Q: My wife and I married in Singapore last year but she continues to live in an HDB flat jointly owned with her ex-husband. I am told I am not eligible to buy a flat on my own because they have not disposed of their flat after their divorce in 2015. I now live separately in a rented room and meet my wife but not in her flat. Am I legally allowed to go and live in the flat as I am the legal husband and she is my wife? Her ex-spouse knows she has remarried.