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Hong Kong Case Law

Interpretation of periodical payments
  • 22 Aug 2017

    劉 對 吳

    Citation
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    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC13195/2011

    Applicant's reasons were insufficient: voluntary reduction to part‑time work and consequent income loss is not an unforeseeable change warranting variation; alleged nondisclosure was not established given respondent had legal advice when consenting; the HK$5,000 payment is a fixed child benefit for general welfare (not an itemised reimbursement) and cannot be converted into respondent's direct payments or reduced to zero on the asserted grounds. Balancing child's welfare, income disparity and petitioner's health and arrears, the court varied the arrangement so that in periods when the respond…