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Disclosure and candour

  • 11 Jun 2021

    RMH v. GY

    Citation
    [2021] HKFC 109
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMP38/2020

    Mother's second application for legal costs provision was allowed because there was a material change in circumstances (the mother's relationship with GB had ended removing that potential financial resource), and notwithstanding concerns about past non‑disclosure the court accepted the mother may lack funds and that the costs provision, strictly payable to solicitors for the benefit of litigation for the child's maintenance, was in the child's interest; court assessed and rounded the total funding need and ordered interim monthly payments to solicitors.

  • 23 Mar 2020

    鄧 對 陳

    Citation
    [2020] HKFC 37
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCJA3955/2014

    Applying s.7 and the authorities the court assessed assets and needs, concluded the wife's disclosure was incomplete (reducing her credibility), excluded the father's post-separation inheritance from the matrimonial pool, applied the sharing principle to the matrimonial assets that derived from the marriage, held equal sharing appropriate overall, but preserved occupation for wife and child until the daughter is 25; consequently the husband was ordered to pay revised monthly maintenance (HK$9,600 spousal; HK$6,400 child), a lump sum balancing payment of HK$251,330, and the matrimonial home to…

  • 2 Feb 1998

    BRIAN LAWRENCE KING v. JULIE CAROL KING

    Citation
    BRIAN LAWRENCE KING v. JULIE CAROL KING
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMC5/1986

    Balancing the applicant's partial procedural success in obtaining rephrasing and clarification against his substantive failures on cohabitation and self-sufficiency claims, together with the respondent's failure of candour and the significant disparity in financial means, the court exercised its discretion to order the applicant to pay 50% of the respondent's costs while bearing his own costs.