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The court summarily assessed costs after dismissing the respondent’s appeal, fixing the petitioner’s recoverable costs at HK$80,000 payable forthwith.
The court varied a child-arrangements order, kept joint custody, granted care and control of both children to the father, and set defined access and holiday sharing for the mother.
The court refused to reduce maintenance before retirement, but prospectively lowered it to HK$10,000 a month once the payer retires or stops work.
Leave to appeal was refused because the applicant failed to demonstrate a reasonable prospect of success or any other reason in the interests of justice; the lower court's interim injunction preserving HKD800,000 in the husband's MPF was a lawful, proportionate and factually supported exercise of discretion to prevent dissipation of assets pending ancillary relief, and appellate intervention was not warranted.
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The court refused the wife's application to stay Hong Kong divorce proceedings in favour of Ireland, finding Hong Kong was not displaced as the more appropriate forum.
The Family Court dismissed the husband’s bid to reduce or end spousal maintenance, found he had means to pay, and granted the wife limited additional maintenance and arrears relief.
Judgment on matrimonial preliminary issues and section 17 applications: no beneficial trust over the landed properties, no 50% TF Co. Ltd. interest for R2, but some transfers were set aside.
The Family Court granted maintenance pending suit and a limited legal costs provision, ordering monthly payments of HK$100,000 and HK$500,000 respectively.
The court varied child maintenance after finding a material change in circumstances, ordered equal sharing of the child’s needs, and dismissed backdating claims.
The court granted interim maintenance and a limited legal costs provision, finding the wife and children’s reasonable needs and inferring the husband’s earning capacity.
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