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Hong Kong Case Law

Conduct in financial orders

  • 10 Jan 2006

    S v. T

    Citation
    S v. T
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC1856/1998

    The Property is to be sold as soon as practicable after the tenant vacates; the net proceeds (gross sale price less then outstanding mortgage, costs of sale and the Director of Legal Aid charge) are to be divided equally between the parties. Pending sale rental income is to be shared equally after payment of the monthly mortgage instalment. No adjustment for conduct is made and the Wife's legal aid costs are to be deducted from sale proceeds rather than ordered against the Husband.

  • 21 Feb 2001

    L v. L

    Citation
    L v. L
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC6452/1995

    The Husband's application for a lump sum is dismissed because his dishonest conduct in dealing with clients' securities materially destroyed matrimonial assets and makes it inequitable to require the Wife to pay a lump sum; substantive periodical payments cannot be made on the evidence because the Wife's precise present means are insufficiently proven and the Husband's earning capacity and actual need are not established with sufficient certainty; therefore only a nominal maintenance order of HK$1 per annum is justified; costs awarded to the Petitioner to be taxed and paid from public funds d…

  • 30 Mar 1993

    CHEN LILIAN HSIAO MEI OUNG v. CHEN SHIN TA MICHAEL

    Citation
    CHEN LILIAN HSIAO MEI OUNG v. CHEN SHIN TA MICHAEL
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMC6/1991

    Because the petitioner was found to have engaged in deliberate, obstructive and contemptuous conduct and to have failed to make full and frank disclosure, the court drew adverse inferences about her wealth and, having regard to statutory factors and the children's needs, ordered the petitioner to pay specified lump sums: HK$7.2 million to the respondent for his immediate maintenance/rehabilitation and US$426,000 to be held on trust for the education and welfare of Te-ming; the court declined to make provision for the respondent's potential US litigation liabilities.