To keep the family together, Mr Tan quit his job, packed up their home in a posh residential area and bought two years' worth of textbooks so he could tutor his daughters, who were then 5 1/2 and 7 years old, in the US. He flew more than 15,000km to join his wife, hoping to rebuild their relationship.
Mr Tan and his wife continued to live under the same roof, but the tension between them was immense. He was a house-husband, while she went to work.
About six months after he left the US, Mr Tan discovered, in a phone conversation with his younger daughter, that his wife had left the girl in the care of her lover's estranged wife when she went on a week-long business trip to Japan.
Last week, in what marked the end of the bitter four-year custody battle, the Court of Appeal dismissed her action For Mr Tan, the end result is a victory for his daughters.
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