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Income and means assessment
  • 14 Apr 2011

    BSTLF v. DSF

    Citation
    BSTLF v. DSF
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC2026/2011

    The wife was not credible about how prior interim funds were spent and failed to prove many expense claims; the husband's income and reasonable outgoings were assessed and reduced where economies were possible; balancing the parties' needs and husband’s ability to pay the court awarded interim maintenance of HK$45,000 per month and an additional HK$5,000 per month toward legal costs (total HK$50,000) from 1 May 2011, with conditions requiring the wife to live separately and provide documentary evidence and an undertaking to pay HK$5,000 per month to her solicitor.