THE WOMAN AND HER SONS
The judgment stated that the late matriarch was a "capable, independent woman of strong character". Her first marriage ended in 1980 after she commenced divorce proceedings against her husband, who had abandoned the family.
She became a single mother of three sons, supporting them by working as a car park attendant. She remarried in 1992 and helped her second husband start his own scaffolding business.
In 2004, the woman started her own maid employment agency, specialising in bringing domestic helpers from India into Singapore, and operated this business until she died in September 2021.
She was a successful businesswoman well-known in Little India for her employment agency, the judge noted.