The case of the woman who trusted too much
My client is a woman in her sixties whose only fault was trusting her family. In 2016 she placed RM1.2 million in her then-daughter-in-law's name to help her secure a housing loan, on the understanding that the money would be returned once the loan was approved. The daughter in law (the Defendant) failed to inform my client that the loan was rejected, and quietly moved the money without my client's knowledge. She also then moved out of the family home with the defendant's ex-husband (the Plaintiff's son). In a judgment dated 20th April 2026, after nearly five years of litigation, the Shah Alam High Court ordered the Defendant to return to my client RM900,000.00 (my client conceded that RM300,000.00 had been transferred to the Defendant's ex-husband (the Plaintiff's son). The defence ran a counterclaim that, if successful, would have left my client unable to recover anything. The Defendant claimed that the entire RM1.2 million had been moved on to the ex-husb...
