A divorced artist who claims her ex-husband signed over their £1.5 million home to her via WhatsApp after their split is locked in a High Court test case fight with trustees to keep it.
London-based painter Hsiao Mei-Lin married Icelandic financier Audun Mar Gudmundsson in 2009, but the pair had a troubled marriage and separated in 2016. During their time together, they lived in a £1.5 million house in affluent Tufnell Park, north London, which is now at the centre of the High Court fight case.
Ms Lin was awarded the house in their divorce, but was unaware Mr Gudmundsson had been declared bankrupt one week earlier, eliminating her chance of receiving his share. She is now fighting an important legal test case over when…