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After the death of Wu Maoli, a wealthy businessman from Dongguan, in the 80s, his entire inheritance of 600 million yuan was left to his remarried wife according to a notarized will. The first wife’s three children questioned his dementia and his ownership of his property and filed a lawsuit, prompting the intervention of police and prosecutors.
The recent outbreak in Dongguan, Guangdong involved a massive sum of 600 million yuan (RMB, same below, about US$89.18 million).legacy After the death of Wu Maoli, a local wealthy businessman, in the eighties, he left a notarized will specifying that all of his property, worth approximately 600 million yuan, would be inherited by his remarried wife Deng Mouqun alone. The three children born to Wu Maoli and his first wife were deeply dissatisfied and questioned the validity of the will and their father’s mental state at the time. He filed a lawsuit in court, requesting that the will be declared invalid and claiming to receive his share of the inheritance of approximately 57 million yuan in accordance with the law. At present, the case has been accepted by the Dongguan First People’s Court, and the property and emotional disputes between the two generations have been officially brought to the court.
Red Star News reported that Wu Maoli started from scratch and accumulated substantial wealth in her early years. In the 1980s, his first wife unfortunately passed away due to an accident, leaving him with three children, including his eldest daughter Wu Mouhui. A few years later, Wu Maoli remarried to his current wife, Deng Moukun. In April 2024, Wu Maoli made a notarized will at the Dongguan City Notary Office, stating that when he was fully awake, he would bequeath all the property in his name to his remarried wife for inheritance. The three children born to the first wife said that they had no prior knowledge about this. His father passed away around the “Hundred Days Festival” in July 2025, until he suddenly discovered that he had not received any money. Wu Mouhui, the eldest daughter, sued her stepmother and half-sister in court in January 2026.
Wu Mouhui claimed that Wu Maoli was diagnosed with cerebral atrophy and white matter degeneration in early 2023, and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in October 2024; She also reported that in the notarization video, her father did not remember his parents’ names and year of marriage, and was hesitant in answering property questions, questioned the existence of key questions in the signing process, and lacked independent civil capacity when making a will. In addition, Wu Mouhui claimed that some of the assets in Wu Maoli’s name belonged to the joint property of husband and wife, which was not divided after Yuanpei’s wife died in 1988, and Wu Maoli had no right to unilaterally dispose of the shares belonging to Yuanpei and his heirs.
In case of doubt, the Dongguan Notary Office made a review decision on November 6, 2026 to maintain the validity of the will notarization. His remarried wife Deng Moukun stressed that the will had gone through a legal and rigorous notarization process and was completely Wu Maoli’s true will. His chronic illness did not affect his legal expression ability. Deng Moukun pointed out that most of the assets in his name were obtained by the joint efforts of the two people after marriage, and it has been more than 20 years since the first wife died, and the children’s claims at this time have exceeded the statute of limitations.
The matter is still being handled, but it has given rise to matters outside the case. Wu Mouhui reported that Deng Moukun asked to discharge Wu Maoli from the hospital after the hospital recommended that Wu Maoli remain hospitalized. Wu Maoli died on the same day she was discharged, so Wu Mouhui’s sister Wu Mouhui reported the matter to the public security organ. The Public Security Agency opened a case on suspicion of abandonment and then dropped the case. Since then, Wu Mouhui has applied to the local procuratorial organ for case filing and supervision, and the procuratorial organ has accepted the application.
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The main controversy is whether Wu Maoli’s notarized will is valid during his lifetime, and whether he left all his property to his remarried wife Deng Mouqun while keeping full civil capacity. The three children claim that they should get their share of the inheritance as per law.
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He believed that his father had cerebral atrophy, white matter degeneration, or even Alzheimer’s disease, and that he may have lost the ability to make independent decisions when he made the will. Furthermore, there were major questions in the notarization video, and they suspected that the will was not Independence’s true intention.
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In addition to the civil lawsuit, family members also alleged that Deng Maokun’s party had asked for the seriously ill Wu Maoli to be discharged from the hospital, leading to controversy over the death; The police had registered a case on suspicion of abandonment and then withdrew the case. Now the Prosecutor’s Office has accepted the application for registering and supervising the case.
