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Family law [2023] HKFC 181

TKY v. YSGA

The court granted interim maintenance and a limited legal costs provision, finding the wife and children’s reasonable needs and inferring the husband’s earning capacity.

  • Interim maintenance
  • Maintenance pending suit
  • Legal costs provision (lcp)
  • Earning capacity
  • Backdating of maintenance
  • Interim-maintenance
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Family law [2023] HKFC 100

CMK (formerly known as CSY) v. CPK

The District Court dismissed a father's application to reduce child maintenance, finding no material change of circumstances and retaining the HK$67,000 monthly order.

  • Children maintenance
  • Variation of periodical payments
  • Earning capacity
  • Non-disclosure
  • Costs
  • Children-maintenance
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Family law [2023] HKFC 48

CHN v. CCY

Family Court ancillary relief decision: the court rejected alleged parental loans as liabilities, found no gross conduct warranting departure, and awarded the husband HK$521,264.

  • Ancillary relief
  • Division of assets
  • Conduct of parties
  • Non-matrimonial property
  • Sharing principle
  • Earning capacity
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Family law [2022] HKFC 99

SRW nee R v. WHF

The Family Court ordered the Wife to pay the Husband HK$4,700 a month as maintenance pending suit, and discharged the earlier interim child maintenance order.

  • Maintenance pending suit
  • Interim child maintenance
  • Shared care arrangements
  • Earning capacity
  • Disclosure and verification of expenses
  • Maintenance-pending-suit
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Family law [2021] HKFC 168

BPL v. BNP formerly known as PN

法院裁定父亲每月向子女支付HK$25,000临时赡养费,并承诺继续支付学费、每月一项课外活动及医疗保险;妻子个人每月HK$10,000申请被驳回。

  • Maintenance pending suit
  • Interim maintenance for child
  • Disclosure of financial information
  • Earning capacity
  • Marital standard of living
  • Maintenance-pending-suit
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Family law [2021] HKFC 36

SNC v. CCS

The court discharged undertakings in a matrimonial maintenance order, rejected liability for unilateral UK school fees, and set child maintenance at HK$50,000 monthly.

  • Variation of maintenance
  • Discharge of undertaking
  • Child education expenses
  • Custody and access
  • Backdating of orders
  • Earning capacity
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Family law [2020] HKFC 165

LZX v. LWY

Family Court fixed child maintenance at HK$10,860 per month after assessing the son’s reasonable needs, the parents’ resources, and disputed household and schooling expenses.

  • Ancillary relief
  • Child maintenance
  • Full and frank disclosure
  • Standard of living
  • Earning capacity
  • Child-maintenance
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Family law [2020] HKFC 139

SM also known as HMS v. HDG

Interim maintenance pending suit was awarded at HK$39,800 per month for the wife and child, with backdating refused and no order as to costs.

  • Maintenance pending suit
  • Ability to pay
  • Earning capacity
  • Standard of living
  • Backdating
  • Form e disclosure
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Family law [2020] HKFC 98

LPYY v. FWHF

The court partly allowed the father’s application to vary child maintenance, reducing monthly payments from HK$32,500 to HK$29,500 after finding a material change but retaining his means.

  • Variation of maintenance
  • Means and resources
  • Earning capacity
  • Disclosure and adverse inference
  • Child's reasonable expenses
  • Child-maintenance
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Family law [2019] HKFC 296

FHP v. YPY (formerly known as YSL)

The District Court of Hong Kong reduced spousal maintenance in stages, discharged a yearly Christmas-gift undertaking, and addressed support for a non-family child.

  • Variation of maintenance
  • Discharge of undertaking
  • Financial provision for third parties
  • Earning capacity
  • Costs
  • Variation-of-maintenance
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