The Court's Consideration of Whether Children Should Follow Their Pare…
2025-03-11
In a divorce case, the Hong Kong Family Court ordered two young children (aged 7 and 3) to permanently relocate to Singapore with their father and rejected the mother's application to relocate them to Dongguan, China.
The Court considered the father's financially sustainable relocation plan, the children's Singapore citizenship, and the father's willingness to involve the mother in the children's lives.
The Court found the mother's plan financially uncertain, noted her lack of effort to correct the children's misunderstanding of their father, and took into account her limited time due to work commitments.
Although the daughter expressed a desire to live with her mother, the Court gave limited weight to this request due to her age and misunderstanding of the situation.