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我重看了小李当年在国会的谈话。
老李在2010年要拆掉老屋， 很多人反对。
小李那时有建议老李把老屋拆掉，重新发展，卖了，然后把所得捐给慈善机构，老李认为那选择不错。
At one point, my brother suggested that my father gift the property to Singapore, subject to the condition that the house be demolished and a small public park be built in its place. I said that I thought this was worth considering, but I offered another option: to demolish the house and redevelop the site as my father wanted, but then to sell off the property and donate the proceeds to charity.
2011年8月老李把房子留给小李。然后在12月公开说：
“Cabinet members were unanimous that 38 Oxley Road should not be demolished as I wanted. I have reflected on this and decided that if 38 Oxley Road is to be preserved, it needs to have its foundations reinforced and the whole building refurbished. It must then be let out for people to live in. An empty building will soon decline and decay.”
然后就一连串的装修房子动作。
2015年去世后，老李的遗嘱却这么写;
“I further declare that it is my wish and the wish of my late Wife, KWA GEOK CHOO, that our house at 38 Oxley Road, Singapore 238629 (“The House”) be demolished immediately after my death, or if my daughter Wei Ling, would prefer to continue living in the original house, immediately after she moves out of the House. I would ask each of my children to ensure our wishes with respect to the demolition of the House be carried out. If our children are unable to demolish the House as a result of any changes in the laws, rules or regulations binding them, it is my wish that the House never be opened to others except my children, their families and descendants. My view on this has been made public before and remains unchanged. My statement of wishes in this paragraph 7 may be publicly disclosed notwithstanding that the rest of my Will is private.”
小李让内阁决定老屋去留。 同时把屋子卖给一直要拆屋的小杨。
。。。。in December 2015 and we also agreed that my brother and I would each donate half the value of the house to charity. We both did so, and in addition I topped up another half myself. In other words, I myself gave away the full value of the house that I had inherited and together, my brother and I have donated one and a half times the value of the house to charity.
So if you understand that properly: the house comes to me, I sell it to my brother for market value. He gives me the value of the house - so many dollars. I gave half of that dollars to charity. He gets the house. In addition, he gives half the value of the house to charity. On top of that, I separately gave half value of the house to charity. So, I gave one times the value, he gave away one half times the value. The house is with him.
有这些奇怪的安排， 其实是小李的“私心”：
。。。our family be seen not to be benefitting financially from 38 Oxley Road, either through receiving compensation from the State for acquisition, or resisting acquisition or preservation / conservation to profit by re-developing and selling the property.
就在跟小杨谈如何把房子转卖给他们的时候， 小李发觉老李的最后一份遗嘱有问题；有关于拆屋部份与之前的遗嘱不同。
简单的说：
First Will (August 20, 2011)
– Demolition Clause first appeared
– LKY gave each child an equal share of his estate Second to Fourth Will (dates unknown)
– Demolition Clause retained
– No change to the share of his estate Fifth Will (date unknown)
– Demolition Clause removed
– No change to the share of estate Sixth Will (November 2, 2012)
– No Demolition Clause
– LKY gave LWL an extra share (relative to LHY and LHL) of the house, and he told LWL about it。
Last Will (December 17, 2013) – Demolition Clause “somehow found its way back into the Last Will”
这就“有趣”。因为当年拆不拆屋的决定让老李改了遗嘱， 怎么最后一份遗嘱拆屋段落却无声息的又出现了?
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