A 51-YEAR-OLD chief executive of an electronics firm and his former Taiwanese mistress are now embroiled in a messy suit over maintenance for their daughter.

She wants him to pay $5,000 a month, but he is willing to cough up $2,000 tops, because he suspects she would blow the money on herself instead of on the eight-year-old.

The 43-year-old woman said in her affidavit that the money was for their daughter's expenses; she also wants him to bear half the relocation cost, including the rental of her apartment in Kovan and a car, and the cost of the counselling the child now needs to deal with having seen him beat her mother early this year.

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