24 Sept 2005
H v. L
- Citation
- H v. L
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMC9565/2002
The court concluded the disputed bank deposits were held on trust for the husband's parents and were returned to them, so they are not matrimonial assets; the wife's earning capacity and substantial prior maintenance payments, the short six-year childless marriage and that much of the husband's wealth was acquired after separation justified a clean-break lump sum award of HK$144,000 (payable by instalments) in addition to maintenance already paid (HK$754,080); the husband's adultery was not "obvious and gross" to alter ancillary relief; costs to the wife to be assessed (order nisi).