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Hong Kong Case Law

Child custody (ancillary)

  • 10 Sept 2019

    LPYT v. STFD

    Citation
    [2019] HKFC 227
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC7424/2019

    Applying a broad‑brush assessment of immediate reasonable needs and the respondent's ability to pay, the court disallowed the petitioner's claimed car expenses and loan repayments, assessed the petitioner's immediate needs at HKD 53,756 per month, found the respondent had sufficient income to meet those needs and to fund legal costs, and therefore ordered MPS of HKD 53,756 per month and a legal costs provision of HKD 30,000 per month for 12 months, with the first payments due 5 October 2019; matters of capital, overlapping income streams and earning capacity are left to the substantive hearin…

  • 31 Jul 2009

    BL v. SJY

    Citation
    BL v. SJY
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC7831/2008

    On the balance of probabilities the husband engaged in conduct (writing sexually explicit e-mails and likely extra-marital relations) that, objectively and in the context of the parties' circumstances, meant the wife could not reasonably be expected to live with him; the wife's allegations did not establish reciprocal conduct rendering the husband unable to live with her; decree nisi granted for petitioner on grounds of husband's unreasonable behaviour.