Man in China seeks snap divorce from rich wife, claims ‘bad relationship’ in bid for half share of US$28 million inheritance
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A China divorce lawsuit in which a man is seeking half of 200 million yuan (US$28 million) his wife recently inherited has captivated mainland social media.
The wife is the only child of multimillionaire parents who died in a road accident earlier this year, the Shanghai Legal Daily reported.
The woman, surnamed Kang, became the sole heir of nine pieces of residential and commercial real estate across Shanghai, more than 10 million yuan (US$1.4 million) in bank deposit, plus some financial products.
The assets have a combined value of 200 million yuan, according to the report.
Six months after her parents passed away, Kang received a surprise court summons saying that her husband, surnamed Wang, wanted to divorce her due to the fact that “they were on bad terms”.