29 Jan 2024
YB v. LX
- Citation
- [2024] HKFC 16
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMC596/2022
Leave to amend the petition was granted despite lateness because the evidence necessary to consider all three jurisdictional limbs was already before the court and prejudice to the respondent could be remedied by directions and costs. On the merits, the amended petition was dismissed for want of jurisdiction: neither party was domiciled in Hong Kong as at the date of the petition, neither party was habitually resident in Hong Kong throughout the three years immediately preceding the petition, and neither party had a substantial connection with Hong Kong given their continuous residence, emplo…