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familyfinancial remediesmatrimonial and non matrimonial propertysharing principle
Kan Lai Kwan v Poon Lok To Otto
(2014) 17 HKCFAR 414
Key Principle
Applying LKW v DD, the Court of Final Appeal treated the value of a spouse's shareholding built up during a long marriage as part of the matrimonial pool subject to the sharing principle, and declined to depart from equal division absent a good articulated reason grounded in the source or character of the asset.
Area of Law
Family Law — matrimonial-and-non-matrimonial-property
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