DDO v DDN
Key facts
| Court | High Court (Family Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Chan Seng Onn |
| Charges / claim | Family Law |
| Counsel | M/s Sterling Law Corporation, Titanium Law Chambers LLC, Danker Geralyn Germaine, Isabel Ho, Loo Liang Zhi, Tan Siew Kim |
Source: [2023] SGHCF 44, High Court (Family Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Case Significance
DDO v DDN [2023] SGHCF 44 is a grounds of decision of Chan Seng Onn SJ in the General Division of the High Court (Family Division), delivered on 24 October 2023 in Divorce (Transferred) No 2566 of 2021 (Summons No 1745 of 2023). The parties married on 24 June 2006 and have two children, with Interim Judgment granted on 13 October 2021 on the basis of unreasonable behaviour; following mediation they agreed to "By Consent" Access Orders granting the father generous access, including overnight access and overseas access during the June and November/December school holidays. In FC/SUM 1745/2023, the mother sought to vary the Access Orders to reduce the father's access to weekend outings and to remove overseas and overnight access, heard together with ancillary matters on 30 August 2023.
[2023] SGHCF 44 explained
DDO v DDN ([2023] SGHCF 44) is a Singapore judgment decided by the High Court (Family Division) on 24 October 2023. It is categorised under Family Law. It is a recent decision; within this corpus no later judgment has cited it yet. 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 44 about?
DDO v DDN ([2023] SGHCF 44) is a High Court (Family Division) decision from 2023. Its published catchwords are “Family Law — Custody — Access”, which indicate the subject matter the judgment addresses. The full reasoning and orders are in the judgment itself, linked below.
Which legislation does [2023] SGHCF 44 consider?
The judgment refers to Penal Code (Cap 224). The statutes cited are listed in full on this page, each linking to its primary text.
Summary
This case concerned a mother's application to vary consent access orders that had granted the father, a doctor, generous access to the couple's two children, including overnight and overseas access. The mother sought to reduce the father's access, seeking to remove overnight and overseas access. The court agreed that the father's access should be reduced in the children's welfare and varied the orders to fixed weekly and public-holiday access while terminating overseas and overnight access; the father appealed against the decision.
What was DDO v DDN [2023] SGHCF 44 about?
It was the mother's application before Chan Seng Onn SJ to vary consent Access Orders and reduce the father's access to their two children, heard with ancillary matters in a transferred divorce, decided on 24 October 2023.
What variation did the mother seek in [2023] SGHCF 44?
In FC/SUM 1745/2023 the mother sought to reduce the father's access to weekend outings arranged directly with the children and to remove the overseas and overnight access previously granted under the "By Consent" Access Orders recorded in the Interim Judgment.
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Read on eLitigationSource: eLitigation ([2023] SGHCF 44)