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Hong Kong Case Law

Jurisdictional limits on lump sum orders
  • 12 Mar 2021

    MS v. SPC

    Citation
    [2021] HKFC 57
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC12160/2019

    The summons was dismissed because the court had no jurisdiction to order the proposed interim lump sum without agreement; the husband failed to demonstrate he could not reasonably deploy his own assets or obtain other short‑term arrangements to meet capital payments and fund litigation; the litigation funding claim lacked sufficient cost breakdown and evidence; the wife was held to her undertaking to meet specified charges and the husband's application for maintenance and litigation funding was refused.