10 Jan 2023
LWH v. YMY AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2023] HKFC 8
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMP188/2017
The Will made no provision for the wife; having applied the statutory factors and used the notional divorce enquiry as a cross‑check, the court found the marriage had effectively ended in November 2012 (duration for sharing purposes 11 years), the House had pre‑marital origins but was intermixed and maintained so that some sharing was fair, and on the facts a 45/55 division in a hypothetical divorce (wife 45%) was appropriate; after accounting for wife’s pension and deductions and rounding the net estate to HK$14,000,000 the court awarded the wife a lump sum of HK$5,645,500, gave unit GB abso…