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Hong Kong Case Law

Inheritance treatment
  • 2 Feb 2015

    CCYM v. PWH

    Citation
    CCYM v. PWH
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC1544/2013

    Court valued the parties' assets as a single pool of approximately HKD 4,986,216, included the wife's pre‑marital savings and Canadian property in the asset base but excluded the wife's inheritance as non‑matrimonial (but acknowledged it as a future resource); accepted that the husband's companies are illiquid and primarily income‑producing and accepted the husband's valuation for present purposes; applied a sharing approach but departed from strict equality because each party should retain assets held in their sole names and on account of premarital contributions and commercial realities; or…