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Every file is public record, told respectfully: a documented timeline, one entered finding, and the specific planning failure it teaches. Never a pitch.

What this page is forThis is where you check whether the story you heard is true — and recognize your own family before it becomes one of these. Each file names the single decision that would have changed the ending; if that decision is still open in your family, the file tells you which page to read next.

Case File No. 1TW · US · HK2009–2016+No will
Wang Yung-ching: the founder who trusted structures and skipped the will
Taiwan's most sophisticated industrialist built offshore trusts holding billions — and died intestate. His children litigated on three continents while Taiwan taxed the worldwide estate.
Estate: ≈US$6.8bn · Published 2026-08-27
Case File No. 2SGFeb–Mar 2025No succession timetable
Kwek v. Kwek: the boardroom coup that put father and son in the High Court
Singapore's richest property family spent early 2025 suing itself. The 84-year-old chairman accused his own son, the CEO, of a boardroom coup. A settlement came in weeks — the split did not heal with it.
Estate: CDL, listed · Published 2026-08-27
Case File No. 3HK · BVI2010–2015Deadlock, no exit
Yung Kee: the roast goose empire that ended in a winding-up order
Two brothers inherited Hong Kong's most famous restaurant in near-equal shares. Deadlocked 45/45 inside a BVI holding company, they litigated for five years — until the court ordered the company wound up. One brother died before the end.
Estate: Yung Kee Holdings (BVI) · Published 2026-08-27
Case File No. 4HK · MO2011 · 2020–2022+No unified architecture
Stanley Ho: the fight for the empire began nine years before the funeral
Macau's casino king built a fortune reported at HK$50bn across four families and seventeen children — with no single structure above them. In 2011, ailing, he watched his controlling stake move without him and sued his own family to get it back. When he died in 2020, no will was found, and his children could not even agree what the estate was worth.
Estate: HK$1.72bn–HK$50bn, disputed · Published 2026-08-27
Case File No. 5ID2020–The second family
Widjaja v. Widjaja: the US$45.8bn estate that legally did not exist
A year after Sinar Mas founder Eka Tjipta Widjaja died, a son born outside the recognized marriage sued five half-brothers over assets he valued at Rp659 trillion. The group's answer was total: the founder personally owned no shares. There was, in law, nothing to inherit — and no other room in which that son could be heard.
Estate: ≈US$45.8bn claimed · Published 2026-08-27
Case File No. 6MY2015–2019 · 2026–Opaque trusts, unequal branches
Genting: the settlement that never settles
Malaysia's casino dynasty signed a 'global settlement' in 2019 to end nine lawsuits between the founder's branches. In February 2026 the family was back in the KL High Court over a new RM1.6bn estate — and a will signed seventeen days after the one before it.
Estate: Genting group · RM1.6bn contested · Published 2026-08-27