SINGAPORE, July 6 -- Two high-stakes divorce cases in Singapore have shone a spotlight on the costly consequences of ghosting court proceedings - with one woman walking away from a potential half a million dollars, and a man's new wife getting tangled in a failed plot to grab an HDB flat.

In the first case, The Straits Times reported that a 40-year-old Taiwanese woman who married a Singaporean millionaire nearly 20 years her senior lost out on a potential share of his S$10 million fortune (RM33.1 million) - all because she repeatedly failed to show up in court.

The whirlwind marriage began in December 2019 after a brief long-distance romance. Her husband, now 58, held a senior corporate role with an annual salary of nearly S$800,000. Bu...