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A Chinese woman has come forward to claim she was the common-law spouse of a millionaire who was allegedly murdered in West Vancouver and that he fathered her child.

The woman, who is only identified as “Mother 1” in a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, claims she is entitled to half of the estate of Gang Yuan, 42, whose body was found chopped up into 100 pieces in his home in May 2015.

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Yuan died without a will, leaving behind an estate estimated to be worth at least $20 million.

Mother 1 says that she and Yuan first met in May 2004 in China and began dating and shortly afterwards she moved into his parents’ home and began cohabiting with him. After breaking up for a period, the two reconciled and began living with one another again in August 2007 until Yuan’s death, she says.

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The mom says that she gave birth to the couple’s child in December 2008 and that while Yuan would often travel to Canada on business and she and the child did not accompany him on those trips, they would cohabit again when he returned to China.