6 May 2020
The court granted the interim application and ordered payments from the stakehold money because the wife and children required support pending final ancillary relief, there were no viable alternative funds, and the possibility that the assets were pre-marital did not justify withholding interim maintenance; costs to follow the event with an order nisi to be made absolute in 28 days.
1 Aug 2014
Assets held by each party were predominantly pre-marital and the marriage was very short; therefore apply a needs-based approach rather than equal sharing. On the facts the respondent must pay the petitioner a lump sum of HK$420,000 in full and final settlement of ancillary claims, capitalized educational payments of HK$80,000 per annum for two years, and periodical child maintenance of HK$12,000 per month; each party retains assets in their sole name and the respondent's ancillary claims are dismissed. Costs ordered nisi for 50% of petitioner's costs capped at HK$400,000.
27 Jul 2010
Court held parties did not maintain wholly separate finances; LS was partly pre‑marital (approx 11%) but for fairness was included in the asset pool; husband found to have recklessly overspent and dissipated assets largely on flying/helicopter expenditures and holidays and HK$1.2M was to be notionally added back to the asset computation; applying need, compensation and sharing the court awarded the wife a lump sum of HK$500,000 payable within 28 days and ordered the husband to pay one third of the wife’s costs (order nisi).