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Hong Kong Case Law

Shared care vs sole care
  • 12 Jul 2023

    AA v. WSC

    Citation
    [2023] HKFC 129
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC3096/2020

    The court awarded sole care and control to the Mother because maintaining the status quo best served the children's welfare: the older children's clear wishes to live with Mother, the Father's unilateral revelation of the half-brother contrary to expert advice and court direction, the Father's deliberate non-disclosure of cohabitation with Madam Li and MC that deprived the SWO of material information, evasive evidence from the Father, his absence during access, and his failure to provide clear, safe and workable proposals for where the children would reside when with him meant shared care wou…