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Hong Kong Case Law

Marriage registration formalities
  • 7 Nov 2023

    黃 對 吳前稱吳

    Citation
    [2023] HKFC 245
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC2867/2021

    The husband failed to prove the marriage was invalid; his documentary evidence did not establish non‑attendance or invalidity, PRC administrative agencies and courts had rejected his requests to cancel the registration, s20(1) did not provide grounds for annulment and s20A(1) did not assist him given the PRC determinations; accordingly the husband's nullity petition is dismissed and the wife's divorce petition is granted (decree nisi); costs to husband; referral to DOJ for possible prosecution of bigamy.