- Recent High Court decision of TOE v TOF [2020] SGHCF 18 by the Honourable Justice Choo Han Teck.
- The matter concerned a marriage of 19 years. The Husband and Wife are 54 and 53 years old respectively and have a 10 year old son.
- The issues are as follows:-
- Care and control;
- Access;
- Maintenance for wife;
- Maintenance for child; and
- Division of matrimonial assets.
- The Husband asserted that he had no assets at all while the Wife asserted that he had approximately $40 million worth of assets. The Court drew adverse inferences against the Husband for his failure to make full and frank disclosure of various assets.
- The orders made were as follows:
- Joint custody
- Care and control to W
- Fixed overnight access to H
- H to pay monthly maintenance of $5k to wife and $4.1k to child. In addition, H to pay for child’s education, insurance and medical/dental directly.
- H to pay lump sum of $4 million in full and final settlement of division of assets.
- H to return W’s personal belongings and half of furniture and kitchenware.
