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Hong Kong Case Law

Weight of foreign custody judgment
  • 6 Dec 2024

    J v. Q

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 363
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP2563/2024

    On balance the court concluded that interim care should be granted to the father because the child had spent the majority of his life with the father, a Shanghai court had adjudicated in favour of the father, the mother's removal of the child to Hong Kong was without consent and questionable, there was no independent evidence of psychological harm or risk, and the child's expressed wishes to the judge were likely the product of pressure and therefore given no weight.