India, March 10 -- A Chinese woman has sparked widespread discussion online after alleging that her deceased mother was posthumously married to her younger brother, who then inherited and transferred most of her assets.

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According to a report by South China Morning Post, the 27 year old woman from central China's Henan province, surnamed Sun, lost her mother Zhao Fang to illness in 2008 when she was just nine years old.

At the time, Sun's parents were already divorced and she had been living with her mother. After Zhao's death, Sun was adopted by her mother's younger sister. Sun said relatives notarised her mother's assets around the time of her ...