Family Law

POINT OF LAW

Corporate structure comes in play when love boat hits rocks

27 Mar 2013

What assets are at risk in divorce? Do they include company assets?

4:32AM

Janette Pepall: An adoption pioneer

21 Oct 2012

Organising an array of thought-provoking seminars and workshops for counsellors, parents and their helpers, a new steering committee at Adoptive Families of Hong Kong has been breathing new life...

9:16AM

Charity helps adoptive families and adoptees in Asia

21 Oct 2012

When Mina Weight and her husband, Guy Facey, found they could not have children, they knew exactly what they wanted to do - adopt from China. It was a country they knew and loved; both had...

11:31AM

Collaborative practice focuses on common ground in family disputes

1 Sep 2012

Hong Kong people are familiar with television soaps portraying lawyers who are extremely adversarial in the courtroom, sometimes shouting or using strong language when representing their clients...

2:49AM

Parents should protest the introduction of national education

26 Aug 2012

It's the start of the new school year, with all the usual parental duties that brings. But this year, some parents have an additional task.

9:12PM

Government will build consensus before legislating for paternity leave

10 Aug 2012

I write in response to Israel Lai's letter in which he calls on the administration to undertake a review on legislating for paternity leave ('Paternity leave can improve employee loyalty while...

11:23PM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Paternity leave a foreign concept for most firms

Most local employers are reluctant to provide paternity leave and would not consider doing so unless it were compulsory.

10:19PM

The chosen few

When Connie Wat Hong-ying and her husband Philip Cheng told their families six years ago that they wanted to adopt, her parents and in-laws baulked. Both sides wanted the couple to have children...

9:59PM

Overseas is the focus for those with special needs

It is invariably able-bodied youngsters who find a home with a local family, adoption agencies say.

Those with special needs often languish in the adoption pool, and grow up in...

9:59PM

All's well that ends well

As divorcing couples who have gone to court can attest, the fight over custody rights and assets can be more painful than the break-up itself. Children and parents often emerge deeply scarred by...

7:34PM

How to keep parenting, after divorce

Kathleen and Rick recently separated after 14 years of marriage. Both had initially thought it would be better to stay together for the sake of their children, Alan, seven, and Rebecca, 13. But...

6:20PM

What they really want

A public consultation on the implementation of a 'joint parental responsibility model' looking at how both parents could be involved after a divorce was completed at the end of April.

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