WVG v WVH & Anor
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WVG v WVH and another [2024] SGHCF 48 is a reserved judgment of the General Division of the High Court (Family Division) (Originating Summons (New Legislation) No 11 of 2024) delivered by Choo Han Teck J on 20 December 2024, following a hearing on 27 November 2024. The underlying dispute concerned the appointment of deputies over the personal welfare, property and affairs of an individual, P, who was diagnosed with dementia in January 2020 and is presently 71 years old. The first respondent, WVH, is P's eldest daughter and the second respondent, WVI, his youngest son. The applicant, WVG, a 62-year-old Singaporean woman, had been in an extra-marital relationship with P since 2014. In July 2022 the respondents applied to be appointed as joint deputies, primarily to instruct counsel to act for P in divorce proceedings, without disclosing the relationship between P and the applicant, who was neither served nor informed of those proceedings.
Summary
This application arose from a dispute over the appointment of deputies for an individual, P, who was diagnosed with dementia and had lost mental capacity, and involved a 62-year-old woman who had been in a long-term relationship with P and who had been appointed by a District Judge as a joint deputy over P's personal welfare after her application to revoke an earlier deputyship order made in favour of P's children was dismissed. The applicant sought to restore her cross-appeal (DCA 123), which had lapsed after the appeal documents were not filed in time owing to her counsel's fault. The High Court (Family Division), per Choo Han Teck J, granted the application to restore DCA 123 and directed the appeal documents to be filed within seven days, and further directed the applicant's counsel to show cause under the Family Justice Rules 2014 why he should not personally bear the costs of the proceedings.
What was WVG v WVH [2024] SGHCF 48 about?
Decided by Choo Han Teck J on 20 December 2024 in the Family Justice Courts, it concerned a Family Law extension of time issue arising from deputyship proceedings over P, a 71-year-old man with dementia, where the applicant WVG was not served or informed of the respondents' application to be appointed joint deputies.
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