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Hong Kong Case Law

Boarding school permission
  • 20 Jan 2020

    SLH (nee N) v. GAH

    Citation
    [2020] HKFC 29
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC16058/2016

    Applying the welfare principle the court found sole custody and sole care and control to the mother was necessary because meaningful joint custody was unrealistic given the father's documented behavioural instability, lack of sustained engagement and non-compliance with treatment; leave for the two older boys to attend the specified New Zealand boarding school and for the mother to relocate permanently to New Zealand from 1 July 2020 was granted because the relocation was genuine, feasible, in the children’s best interests and did not amount to an unjustifiable impediment to the father's abil…