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Hong Kong Case Law

Pre-marital (non‑matrimonial) assets
  • 23 Mar 2018

    WT v. YLC

    Citation
    [2018] HKFC 38
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC9820/2015

    Applying the established five‑step approach and accepting a two‑stage analysis of pre‑marital assets, the court identified and quarantined specified pre‑marital assets for each party (taking account of duration, separate finances and limited intermingling), treated certain post‑separation acquisitions as the husband’s, applied the sharing principle to the remaining pot and made final orders that effect a clean break: the wife receives a greater share (approx 55.6%) and the husband (approx 44.4%) after transfers and a balancing lump sum of HK$5,721,300; child maintenance set at HK$40,000 per m…