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Family law [2025] HKFC 203

H v. W

The court allowed limited child removals for overseas school trips and holiday travel, subject to detailed notice, proof, and safeguarding conditions.

  • Child removal
  • Parental responsibility
  • Non-removal order
  • Travel arrangements
  • Best interests of the child
  • Child-removal
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Family law [2021] HKFC 76

KYK v. MSMSC

The court varied child maintenance orders, increasing support for both sons after custody changed, accepting the mother’s revised expenses and evidence of the father’s means.

  • Variation of maintenance order
  • Maintenance for child
  • Financial disclosure
  • Costs
  • Child-maintenance
  • Variation-of-maintenance-order
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Family law [2019] HKFC 324

RM (aka RH) v. SRM

The District Court refused a mother’s renewed application to relocate her younger son to Japan, keeping care, schooling, and access arrangements centered in Hong Kong.

  • Relocation
  • Sibling bonding
  • Schooling
  • Guardianship
  • Best interests
  • Child-relocation
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Family law C v. L

C v. L

The District Court ordered the husband to pay HKD 2,500 monthly child maintenance, finding he had earning capacity and resources despite his injury and claimed unemployment.

  • Paternity
  • Earning capacity
  • Legal aid
  • Compensation as a resource
  • Residency and schooling of child
  • Child-maintenance
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Family law K v. C

K v. C

The court ordered an equal split of the sale proceeds of the former matrimonial home, awarded child maintenance of HK$4,200 monthly, and granted joint custody.

  • Ancillary relief
  • Division of matrimonial property
  • Interim maintenance reimbursement
  • Periodical child maintenance
  • Attachment of earnings
  • Clean break order
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Family law L v. H

L v. H

Custody dispute over two young sons resolved in favor of the mother, with the father granted staying access and no order as to costs.

  • Child custody
  • Access
  • Guardianship of minors ordinance s.3
  • Welfare of the child
  • Child-custody
  • Staying-access
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Family law K v. K

K v. K

The court ordered the mother to return the child to the father’s custody, applying welfare and habitual-residence principles and rejecting the mother’s reliance on the child’s wishes.

  • Wrongful retention
  • Habitual residence
  • Contempt of court
  • Forum conveniens
  • Peremptory return order
  • Welfare of the child
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Family law RE AN INFANT

RE AN INFANT

Court refused an adoption order by a mother and step-father, finding the father had not abandoned the child and that consent should not be dispensed with.

  • Consent to adoption
  • Abandonment
  • Unreasonable withholding of consent
  • Discretion to dispense consent
  • Best interests of the child
  • Change of name
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