CYH v CYI
Key facts
| Court | High Court (Family Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Chan Seng Onn |
| Charges / claim | Family Law |
| Counsel | Raymond Yeo, Yeo Kee Chye Raymond |
Source: [2023] SGHCF 4, High Court (Family Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Case Significance
CYH v CYI [2023] SGHCF 4 is a Grounds of Decision of the General Division of the High Court (Family Division), delivered by Chan Seng Onn SJ on 7 February 2023 in Divorce (Transferred) No 1441 of 2019. The dispute concerns the division of matrimonial assets and maintenance for the wife and child following a marriage of about seven years; the parties married on 30 September 2012, both aged 40, with two children. The husband, a contractor in interior design and renovation, filed for divorce on 28 March 2019, with Interim Judgment granted on 17 June 2019. The judge sets out the full grounds after the wife appealed against the decision given on 14 December 2022.
[2023] SGHCF 4 explained
CYH v CYI ([2023] SGHCF 4) is a Singapore judgment decided by the High Court (Family Division) on 7 February 2023. It is categorised under Family Law. Within this corpus it has since been cited by 4 other reported Singapore judgments, a measure of how often later decisions have referred to it. This page summarises what the reported decision covers and links the primary sources — the full judgment, the statutes it cites, and the other cases it engages with — so the decision can be read in context. It is reference information, not legal advice, and it does not state the outcome or any holding beyond what the official judgment records.
What is [2023] SGHCF 4 about?
CYH v CYI ([2023] SGHCF 4) is a High Court (Family Division) decision from 2023. Its published catchwords are “Family Law — Maintenance — Child”, “Family Law — Maintenance — Wife”, and “Family Law — Matrimonial Assets — Division”, which indicate the subject matter the judgment addresses. The full reasoning and orders are in the judgment itself, linked below.
How influential is [2023] SGHCF 4?
Within this corpus, [2023] SGHCF 4 has been cited by 4 later reported Singapore judgments. That count reflects references from other decisions held in this corpus only and is a conservative lower bound on how often the case has actually been cited.
Summary
This case concerned the division of matrimonial assets and maintenance following the divorce of a wife (holding a business degree but unemployed) and a husband (an interior design and renovation contractor), who married in 2012 for about seven years. The court assessed their financial contributions at roughly 85.26% for the husband and 14.74% for the wife and divided the assets 60% to the husband and 40% to the wife, ordering maintenance of $2,700 per month for the wife and two children and no order for costs. The wife appealed against the decision, and the court set out its full grounds.
What did CYH v CYI [2023] SGHCF 4 decide?
Chan Seng Onn SJ in the General Division of the High Court (Family Division) addressed the division of matrimonial assets and maintenance for the wife and child in Divorce (Transferred) No 1441 of 2019, setting out full grounds on 7 February 2023 after the wife appealed.
What were the family circumstances in CYH v CYI ([2023] SGHCF 4)?
The parties married on 30 September 2012, were both 40 years old, and had two children aged nine and seven. The husband, an interior design and renovation contractor, filed for divorce on 28 March 2019, with Interim Judgment granted on 17 June 2019 after about seven years of marriage.
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Other Singapore judgments involving the same parties or counsel.
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Judgment
Read the full judgment on the official Singapore Courts portal.
Read on eLitigationSource: eLitigation ([2023] SGHCF 4)