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Hong Kong Case Law

Needs versus sharing
  • 14 Jul 2008

    K v. C

    Citation
    K v. C
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC5508/2005

    The court found the marriage to be short with no seamless pre-marital cohabitation to extend its duration; the wife's claim for compensation for a foregone concert career was speculative and not established; alleged family loans were examined and certain intra-family liabilities were not treated as immediate enforceable liabilities for asset calculation; applying needs (generously interpreted) rather than sharing or compensation the wife's capitalised needs and deductions produced a fair settlement: transfer of the Federal Hill property and a lump sum of 4.25 million (currency units used in j…