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Hong Kong Case Law

Child welfare principle
  • 30 Sept 1976

    F v. K

    Citation
    F v. K
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP41/1976

    On the facts the court awarded custody of the boy S to his father and custody of the three daughters P, J and B to their mother because this arrangement best served the children's welfare given their settled living arrangements, the expressed wishes of the children and the special circumstances of the family; neither parent was found unfit and general gender presumptions were not applied as binding rules.