Taipei Times
Date: Jul 27, 2020
By: Lee Li-fa, Wu Sheng-ju and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer

A 101-year-old man has become one of Taiwan’s oldest plaintiffs in a divorce case after he filed for divorce from his 81-year-old Chinese-born wife, who has countersued, seeking half the couple’s assets.

The man, surnamed Chou (周), said his wife, surnamed Chen (陳), had left their Pingtung County home last year, saying she was “heading back to China for medical care.”

However, he later discovered that Chen was instead living in “the northern part” of Taiwan, and “several hundred thousand” New Taiwan dollars were missing from his bank account, which led him to file for divorce, he said.

Chou told the Pingtung District Court that he met Chen while visiting relatives in China about two decades ago, after his first wife died.    [FULL  STORY]