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Mental health [2025] HKCFI 4647

RE CVB

The court authorised a statutory will for CVB after finding she lacked testamentary capacity and that the proposed disposition was in her best interests.

  • Statutory will
  • Testamentary capacity
  • Best interests
  • Substituted judgment
  • Distribution of estate
  • Costs
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Probate [2025] HKCFI 1752

YUEN YUK KING v. YANG XIAOLONG otherwise known as YANG XIAOLING

The court held that the plaintiff remained the deceased’s lawful wife, voided the later marriage, and ordered Letters of Administration to be granted to her.

  • Void marriage
  • Letters of administration
  • Set aside divorce
  • Unless order sanctions
  • Costs assessment
  • Probate
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Probate [2025] HKCFI 370

MAK NGUN TAI AND OTHERS v. FUNG MING IP AND ANOTHER

The court held that the deceased’s 2013 will was invalid for lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence and want of knowledge and approval, and declared her intestate.

  • Propounding a will
  • Burden of proof
  • Banks v goodfellow test
  • Resulting trust
  • Presumption of advancement vs resulting trust
  • Adverse inferences
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Probate [2025] HKCFI 452

KWOK YUK KIENG AND OTHERS v. MAN CHUK HEI

In an intestacy probate action, the court revoked a grant of letters of administration obtained by a divorced former spouse and ordered costs against the defendant.

  • Letters of administration
  • Intestates' estates ordinance
  • Revocation of grant
  • Substituted service
  • Costs
  • Probate
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Intestacy [2023] HKCA 625

CHAN OI KWAN v. CHAN FU WING

The Court of Appeal dismissed an intestacy appeal about whether a 2010 transfer of a Hong Kong property to a son was an advancement under s 5(1)(c).

  • Hotchpot provision
  • Advancement
  • Contrary intention
  • Settlement
  • Ancestral home
  • Intestacy
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Probate [2022] HKCFI 1111

HO CHIU KING, PANSY CATILINA v. HO, ANGELA AND ANOTHER

The court appointed KPMG as independent administrators of Dr Stanley Ho’s intestate estate, rejecting a bid to add Alvarez & Marsal alongside them.

  • Appointment of administrators
  • Passing over entitlement (section 36 pao)
  • Majority preference
  • Professional administrators
  • Conflict of interest
  • Costs
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Intestacy [2021] HKCFI 2226

XIE WEN YUAN (谢文辕) a minor by HE JUN (何君) his next friend and mother v. ZENG MEI YU (曾美玉), the Administrator of the estate of XIE HUIZHANG (謝會章), deceased

The court granted a preservation order to secure a minor's possible entitlement in an intestate estate, relying on risks from non-disclosure and prior asset disposals.

  • Preservation order
  • Parentage/dna evidence
  • Administrator duties
  • Admissibility of solicitor affirmations
  • Costs and taxation
  • Cross‑jurisdictional assets
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Probate and administration [2020] HKCFI 2289

PO KA YING v. CHU PUI LAI KITTY

法院在遗产管理的 case management 会议上发出多项指示,要求就管理员人选、账目、资产去向及争议事项厘清,并把实质争议留待后续处理。

  • Appointment of administrators
  • Grant of administration
  • Accounts of administrators
  • Title deeds
  • Interim injunctions
  • List of issues
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Probate [2020] HKCFI 1309

LAI CHI KEUNG v. HO SIU FONG

The court held that Ho Siu Fong was not the deceased’s wife by a valid marriage and granted letters of administration to Lai Chi Keung as the deceased’s natural son.

  • Letters of administration
  • Validity of marriage
  • Intestate succession
  • Proof of parentage
  • Service of process
  • Costs
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Domicile and conflict of laws [2019] HKCFI 2856

AH PIN SAY NAI v. TAM MEE LING (譚美玲) also known as MEE LING TAM, the administratrix of the estate of KWOK LEUNG LAM also known as KWOK LEUNG LAM also known as LAM, KWOK LEUNG (林國良), DECEASED

The court held that the deceased had acquired a domicile of choice in Toronto, so Hong Kong intestacy rules did not apply and the plaintiff’s claims failed.

  • Domicile of choice
  • Intestates' estates ordinance application
  • Statutory trusts
  • Determination of domicile for succession
  • Costs orders
  • Domicile-of-choice
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