Family and Child Rights

We act in divorce and ancillary relief, custody, care and control and access matters. The work ranges from short, agreed matters to contested children matters and ancillary proceedings involving international considerations. We act for petitioners and respondents in roughly equal measure, and where children are involved we work in a way that prioritises their welfare and limits the damage of the proceedings to them.

Grounded in trauma-informed care, we understand the complexities of relationship dynamics and the stress of family restructuring. This perspective allows us to provide practical, sensitive solutions that prioritise stability, particularly where children are involved.

Another growing part of our practice concerns families that fall outside the assumptions of the existing legislation. We advise on legal parentage for children born through surrogacy and reciprocal IVF, on the recognition of parenthood for same-sex parents, and on the recovery of children removed from Hong Kong without consent. Where forced marriage is in issue we have acted in proceedings recognised as the first of their kind in Hong Kong. The firm's partner Wong Hiu-Chong is the Chinese editor of Duxbury Etc. — Hong Kong Family Court Tables.