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Custody and passport possession
  • 20 May 2008

    SDY v. KSLS

    Citation
    SDY v. KSLS
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC11958/2006

    The court found on the evidence that the majority of funds advanced by the wife's father were gifts (with the HK$1,000,000 tranche treated as given to both parties for purchase of the matrimonial home). The TKS property was held to be non-matrimonial but not immune from consideration when achieving a fair outcome. Applying the two-stage approach and s.7 factors (need, sharing, compensation) in light of the short marriage with a child, fairness required the wife retain the TKS property and the former matrimonial home, the husband receive transfer of 31B and the jointly held car park and a lump…