9 Apr 1986
CHAN CHYUNG HING v. WONG KIM WAH AND OTHERS
- Citation
- CHAN CHYUNG HING v. WONG KIM WAH AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAP5/1984
The court found on the balance of the evidence that the deceased was born in China and had acquired a domicile of choice in Hong Kong by 1942; the 1942 ceremony, viewed as a whole against the flexible, evolving character of Chinese customary law, satisfied the essential rites and constituted a valid Chinese customary marriage; the late Macau registrations were aimed at obtaining travel documents and did not defeat the earlier facts; no evidence proved dissolution of the first marriage before the 1952 marriage; therefore the plaintiff was the lawful widow and entitled to letters of administrat…