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Hong Kong Case Law

Resumption of cohabitation
  • 10 Jul 2017

    WSM v. YKY

    Citation
    WSM v. YKY
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC8306/2015

    On the balance of probabilities the husband failed to prove that the parties lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately before presentation of the petition; the separation agreement, if signed, was more probably executed for tax avoidance to enable the husband to become non-resident of Canada rather than to effect a genuine clean break; extensive evidence of cohabitation, financial interdependence, joint accounts, shared travel and public representation as spouses showed no legal separation (or, if separation occurred, there was resumption of cohabitation), therefor…