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The court dismissed the respondent’s bid to vary or discharge a consent lump sum payable by instalments, finding the alleged change was self-induced and unsupported by credible evidence.
On appeal in matrimonial proceedings, the Court of Appeal set aside a HK$1.2 million legal costs provision order and remitted the wife’s application for rehearing.
Court determined total net family assets at HK$5,953,809.23, rejected applicant's claim that HK$861,700 from her parents was a repayable debt (holding it to be gift/soft loan) and therefore excluded it from liabilities, applied the sharing principle but departed from equal split because applicant had higher future needs, greater contribution in childcare and respondent had greater earning capacity and pre-marital mainland asset; awarded applicant 55% (~HK$3,274,595) and ordered specific sale of the marital home with net payment of HK$3,150,000 to be paid to applicant via Legal Aid and other a…
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The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against refusal to release a matrimonial undertaking, holding there was no reasonable prospect of success.
On sentencing for contempt in a matrimonial finance case, the court held that late payment was only limited mitigation and imposed 3 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for 12 months, plus indemnity costs.
On appeal from a Family Court case-management order, the court upheld immediate filing and exchange of Form E and dismissed the wife’s request to defer disclosure.
The District Court refused a husband's application for leave to appeal against interim maintenance and legal costs provision orders, finding no reasonable prospect of success.
The Court of Appeal dismissed leave-to-appeal and fresh-evidence applications in ancillary relief proceedings, rejecting a late “black hole” asset theory and upholding the costs order.
Ancillary relief judgment on add-back, crypto disclosure, unilateral assets, and child maintenance, with equal sharing applied and limited add-backs ordered.
Family Court ancillary relief decision: the court rejected alleged parental loans as liabilities, found no gross conduct warranting departure, and awarded the husband HK$521,264.
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