SINGAPORE: A woman who was in a DINK (dual income, no kids) marriage is set to get an extra sum of about S$267,000 (US$197,700) from her ex-husband in their divorce proceedings, after partially succeeding in her appeal against the ruling in the case. In a judgment published on Wednesday (Jul 10), Judicial Commissioner Mohamed Faizal found that the lower court judge who made the ruling had failed to consider both sides' indirect contributions to the marriage. After adjusting for the indirect contributions, the judge ordered the husband to pay the wife another S$266,723.
09. He also reversed the lower court's order of costs against the wife, such that each party bear their own costs instead. THE MARRIAGE The couple got married in October 2011 and did not have children throughout their union of about eight-and-a-half years.
They owned a matrimonial Housing Board flat, which was purchased just before the marriage, but did not stay in it. Instead, they lived with the husband's parents. They also agreed that the wife's parents would stay in their matrimonial flat in exchange for a monthly rental fee, and subsequently sold this flat in 2018.
When the couple lived at the husband's parents' house, there were helpers who cleaned and cooked for them. The judge noted that the couple did not appear to have an especially close relationship, and that they gave different underlying reasons for this. The wife claimed the husband would spend time pursuing his own interests, neglecting her and c.