Legal Opinion
Yueh-Lan Wang Ex Rel. Wen-Young Wong v. New Mighty U.S. Trust
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 15, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2010-1743PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
This case begins in a Taiwanese rags-to-riehes tale. Yung-Ching (Y.C.) Wang was bom in 1917 into a tea-farming family so poor that he could not afford to attend high school. By his death in 2008, he was his country’s second wealthiest person — a plastics tycoon worth an estimated $6.8 billion.
But, as is often true on both sides of the Pacific: more money, more problems. Y.C. died without a known will, and his heirs— belonging to three “Families” — have since been locked in an international struggle for his assets. This case is…
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