It's a deceitful plan by your MIL to screw her husband out of his 50% share of the condo in a divorce settlement. Don't be a party to it and advise your wife to distance herself from it. She will feel bad about helping to defraud her father and it will destroy her relationship with her father. Her father will be left homeless and penniless and is she ok with that? What has her father done to deserve it? If she helps her greedy mother strip her father of his last property she will have no peace of mind.

The whole problem is caused by the FIL's daughter from 1st wife wanting to sell a surname for RM300,000 when he has no money and no spare property.

Cheating FIL and moving him out of the condo by deceit will create a lot of problems when he cannot get the money he expects. To think he will not to make a fuss is unrealistic. There will probably be war and unintended consequences.

To avoid bigger problems later tell FIL in no uncertain terms that mortgaging the condo to raise money for his 1st wife's daughter is NO-NO. No need to hide. Tell him they know what he wants the money for.

He will make a fuss but that's about it. The condo is in MIL's name so nothing much he can do. But giving him high hopes and then dashing it may have serious consequences.

And tell that daughter to take her offer and shaft it!

This post has been edited by Ginny88: Oct 31 2019, 10:32 AM

Division of properties between divorced couples is quite straightforward. There is no long court fight necessary. Either one of two options will happen:

1. The couple work out between themselves on the division of assets.

2. If they cannot come to an agreement it is left to the judge to decide on how to split when granting the divorce. The judge may decide 50-50 but not always. The party which has done the most to acquire the asset is likely to get a bigger share.

Not less horny but balanced horniness between couples. Too many marriages where one partner wants it more than the other (not always the man) while the other partner thinks it is no big deal and causing frustration and unhappiness to the other.

1st wife never divorced FIL. They were never legally married.

I think can sell this story for a Cantonese soap opera!

I feel bad for the 1st wife. She gave him her money under false pretenses on his part. He scammed her after she took him in. FIL is irresponsible and makes use of others to solve his problem.

I doubt MIL is going to give the money back. She probably hates the 1st wife's guts.