By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:11 EST, 29 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:45 EST, 29 January 2014 . A house husband and his investment banker wife are locked in an £11million divorce battle after a fierce holiday row proved the final straw for their marriage . Weng Choy and his breadwinner wife Lena Tan lived an opulent lifestyle during their 15-year marriage, enjoying homes in Hong Kong and Malaysia, a £1million wine collection and the ‘jewel in the crown’ of their marital assets, a £4.5million flat in Kensington, west London. Mr Choy, 56, filed for divorce in January 2012 after a row on New Year’s Eve while on a family holiday in Singapore. Battle: Lena Tan, left, and Wang Choy, right, are fighting over their £11million fortune after filing for divorce . He is asking the English courts – . renowned for their generosity in deciding divorce settlements – to hand . him a slice of the marital assets, which have been valued by lawyers at . £11million. Mr Choy, . who was also a banker, according to his lawyers, before quitting to care . for the couple’s two sons, claims he sacrificed his own career so that . his wife’s could flourish. But . Miss Tan, 54, a leading hedge fund manager who has worked in the City . as well as the Far East, is arguing that her husband has no right to . divorce her in the UK and has initiated her own proceedings in Malaysia. James . Turner QC, for Miss Tan, who is asking the Appeal Court to block the . English divorce bid, said that following a falling out in London in . September 2010, the couple’s marriage hit a crisis but had survived . until it ‘struck the rock of the row on New Year’s Eve 2011’. A . High Court family judge ruled in March last year that the husband had . been ‘habitually resident’ in London for at least a year before he filed . for divorce and so was entitled to end his marriage in the UK. However, . Mr Turner argued that, despite more than half of the couple’s wealth . being invested in Britain, the judge should not have allowed the divorce . to proceed. Home: The couple used Ms Tan's earnings as a hedge fund manager to buy a £4.5million flat in this building in Kensington without getting a mortgage . The court heard the couple fought on a family holiday in Singapore (pictured) during Christmas 2011/2012 . He insisted . that the husband’s home had remained in Hong Kong and that the marriage . had been intact until the fateful holiday row. ‘Married . family life between the parties continued to some degree at least,’ he . said, ‘and had Hong Kong as its centre, until a row took place between . the parties during the Christmas 2011, New Year 2012 period, following . which the husband came to England.’ Mr . Turner also said it was unfair that, after agreeing to pay £500,000 to . her husband from the proceeds of their wine collection, the wife had . also been ordered by the High Court to pay him a further £100,000 . towards his legal bill. Tim Bishop QC, for the husband, insisted that his home base had been in London since the 2010 argument. ‘When the centre of the husband’s interest ceased to be Hong Kong, London was the natural and obvious replacement,’ he said. The . Malaysian-born couple’s two children had both boarded at English . schools, he added. ‘The judge found that they had an international . marriage which involved them moving around the world following the . wife’s work. After the marriage broke down . . . the husband’s centre of interests ceased to be dictated by the wife’s working life.’ Mr Choy has obtained a British driving licence as well as a National Insurance number, he added. Hearing: The Court of Appeal, sitting in the Royal Courts of Justice, is set to rule on the pair's divorce . Lord . Justice Leveson, Lord Justice Aikens and Lady Justice Macur reserved . their judgment on the case and will give their ruling at a later date. n . A businessman asked his partner of 30 years whether she would stay on . as a housekeeper when he moved his new lover into their home, the High . Court heard yesterday. And . the man – worth more than £13million – could not understand why his . partner then ‘became aggressive through her lawyers’, a judge said. The request emerged yesterday as the woman was awarded a payout of more than £6million by Mr Justice Bodey. He said his judgment could be reported but said the couple, from London, could not be identified. ‘The husband installed the other woman – and her 12-year-old daughter – into the marital home,’ said the judge. ‘The husband told [his partner] he was not intending her to vacate and would she remain as some sort of housekeeper?’ He said she found the suggestion ‘very demeaning and upsetting’.
Lena Tan amassed £11million fortune as hedge fund manager and bought £4.5million Kensington mansion with husband Weng Choy .
After the couple had an argument in Singapore he filed for divorce .
They have shared out proceeds from the sale of £1million wine collection .
Ms Tan argues divorce case should not be heard in Britain because she lives in Malaysia and Mr Choy is from Hong Kong .
By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:11 EST, 29 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:45 EST, 29 January 2014 . A house husband and his investment banker wife are locked in an £11million divorce battle after a fierce holiday row proved the final straw for their marriage . Weng Choy and his breadwinner wife Lena Tan lived an opulent lifestyle during their 15-year marriage, enjoying homes in Hong Kong and Malaysia, a £1million wine collection and the ‘jewel in the crown’ of their marital assets, a £4.5million flat in Kensington, west London. Mr Choy, 56, filed for divorce in January 2012 after a row on New Year’s Eve while on a family holiday in Singapore. Battle: Lena Tan, left, and Wang Choy, right, are fighting over their £11million fortune after filing for divorce . He is asking the English courts – . renowned for their generosity in deciding divorce settlements – to hand . him a slice of the marital assets, which have been valued by lawyers at . £11million. Mr Choy, . who was also a banker, according to his lawyers, before quitting to care . for the couple’s two sons, claims he sacrificed his own career so that . his wife’s could flourish. But . Miss Tan, 54, a leading hedge fund manager who has worked in the City . as well as the Far East, is arguing that her husband has no right to . divorce her in the UK and has initiated her own proceedings in Malaysia. James . Turner QC, for Miss Tan, who is asking the Appeal Court to block the . English divorce bid, said that following a falling out in London in . September 2010, the couple’s marriage hit a crisis but had survived . until it ‘struck the rock of the row on New Year’s Eve 2011’. A . High Court family judge ruled in March last year that the husband had . been ‘habitually resident’ in London for at least a year before he filed . for divorce and so was entitled to end his marriage in the UK. However, . Mr Turner argued that, despite more than half of the couple’s wealth . being invested in Britain, the judge should not have allowed the divorce . to proceed. Home: The couple used Ms Tan's earnings as a hedge fund manager to buy a £4.5million flat in this building in Kensington without getting a mortgage . The court heard the couple fought on a family holiday in Singapore (pictured) during Christmas 2011/2012 . He insisted . that the husband’s home had remained in Hong Kong and that the marriage . had been intact until the fateful holiday row. ‘Married . family life between the parties continued to some degree at least,’ he . said, ‘and had Hong Kong as its centre, until a row took place between . the parties during the Christmas 2011, New Year 2012 period, following . which the husband came to England.’ Mr . Turner also said it was unfair that, after agreeing to pay £500,000 to . her husband from the proceeds of their wine collection, the wife had . also been ordered by the High Court to pay him a further £100,000 . towards his legal bill. Tim Bishop QC, for the husband, insisted that his home base had been in London since the 2010 argument. ‘When the centre of the husband’s interest ceased to be Hong Kong, London was the natural and obvious replacement,’ he said. The . Malaysian-born couple’s two children had both boarded at English . schools, he added. ‘The judge found that they had an international . marriage which involved them moving around the world following the . wife’s work. After the marriage broke down . . . the husband’s centre of interests ceased to be dictated by the wife’s working life.’ Mr Choy has obtained a British driving licence as well as a National Insurance number, he added. Hearing: The Court of Appeal, sitting in the Royal Courts of Justice, is set to rule on the pair's divorce . Lord . Justice Leveson, Lord Justice Aikens and Lady Justice Macur reserved . their judgment on the case and will give their ruling at a later date. n . A businessman asked his partner of 30 years whether she would stay on . as a housekeeper when he moved his new lover into their home, the High . Court heard yesterday. And . the man – worth more than £13million – could not understand why his . partner then ‘became aggressive through her lawyers’, a judge said. The request emerged yesterday as the woman was awarded a payout of more than £6million by Mr Justice Bodey. He said his judgment could be reported but said the couple, from London, could not be identified. ‘The husband installed the other woman – and her 12-year-old daughter – into the marital home,’ said the judge. ‘The husband told [his partner] he was not intending her to vacate and would she remain as some sort of housekeeper?’ He said she found the suggestion ‘very demeaning and upsetting’.
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