L O B v H O B PIHAK YANG DINAMAKAN C O B

wa-33-592-12-2021 High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) 21 May 2025 • WA-33-592-12/2021

Catchwords

Family Law - Divorce – Spousal maintenance – Whether spousal maintenance should be awarded to Wife – Whether Wife had estabslihed that Husband had caused irretrievable breakdown of marriage – Whether Wife had satisfied ‘means and needs’ test to justify amount of spousal maintenance sought – Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 – sections 77, 78 Family Law – Divorce – Irretrievable breakdown of marriage – Cause of – Whether Wife’s allegations of adultery between the Petitioner and Party-Cited had been established – Whether Wife had found such adultery, if at all, intolerable – Whether Wife had established that it was Husband’s unreasonable behaviour that had caused irretrievable breakdown of the marriage – Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 sections 53, 54, 58(3) – Women’s Charter 1961 (Singapore), section 95(5) Family Law – Divorce – Guardianship, custody, care and control of child and child maintenance – Whether the Husband and Wife should be granted joint guardianship and joint custody – Whether sole custody, care, and control should be awarded to the Wife – What form of access the Husband should have – Whether Husband obligated to pay child maintenance – Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 – sections 88, 92, 93 – Guardianship of Infants Act 1961 – sections 3 and 5 Family Law – Divorce – Division of matrimonial assets – Whether both Husband and Wife entitled to a division of those assets based on their respective claimed contributions – Whether contributions of each party established – Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 – section 76

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Case Significance

L O B v H O B PIHAK YANG DINAMAKAN C O B is a High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) decision dated May 21, 2025 (citation: wa-33-592-12-2021). The case was decided by Evrol Mariette Peters.

What was the outcome of L O B v H O B PIHAK YANG DINAMAKAN C O B?

L O B v H O B PIHAK YANG DINAMAKAN C O B is a High Court decision dated May 21, 2025. The case was heard by Evrol Mariette Peters. See the full judgment for details.