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Hong Kong Case Law

Variation of child maintenance
  • 20 Mar 2024

    CSF v. HYC

    Citation
    [2024] HKFC 46
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC12661/2014

    The Mother failed to demonstrate a reasonable prospect of success or any other reason in the interests of justice to grant leave: primary discretionary findings (including material non-disclosure and rejected loan agreement) were sound, the backdating claim was properly refused on discretionary grounds and for lack of enforcement steps and credible evidence, post-trial materials were inadmissible and disregarded, the disputed utility item was immaterial given the child's imminent majority, and practical medical/CPI issues did not alter the maintenance decision. Therefore leave to appeal is re…

  • 21 Sept 2012

    WU NEH WAH GLORIA v. PATRICK BRIAN FONTAINE

    Citation
    WU NEH WAH GLORIA v. PATRICK BRIAN FONTAINE
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV130/2011

    Leave to appeal was refused because questions one and two were belated and not argued below, questions three and four did not affect the decisive construction of clause D(g) and concerned discretionary fact‑weighing that did not raise matters of general or public importance, and because periodic maintenance is not calculated on a reimbursement basis.