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Effect of covid-19 on needs
  • 3 Dec 2020

    T v. W

    Citation
    [2020] HKFC 248
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMP38/2007

    The application for leave to appeal was dismissed because the father failed to demonstrate a reasonable prospect of success on any ground: the matters relied on (COVID-19 and 2020 economic crisis) were not before the trial in 2019 and, if material change exists, should be pursued by fresh application; the judge reasonably found the mother unlikely to make meaningful financial contribution; the father deliberately failed to make full and frank disclosure permitting adverse inference and supporting the maintenance assessment at $52,000 per month; the $100,000 relocation lump sum was a fair esti…