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
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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.