YBG v YBH

[2026] SGFC 50 Family Court 7 April 2026 • FC/OADV 709/2025 • 27 min read
17 cases cited

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Case Significance

YBG v YBH [2026] SGFC 50, decided on 2 April 2026 by District Judge Kevin Ho, resolved two concurrent applications arising from divorce proceedings. The Husband applied in FC/OADV 709/2025 to rescind the wife maintenance order (paragraph 3e of the Interim Judgment for Divorce dated 13 February 2023), which required him to pay S$2,000 per month. The Wife had filed MSS 1726/2025 in August 2025 to enforce that same maintenance order. The case considers whether a consent order for maintenance can be set aside on the ground of fraudulent misrepresentation, together with the parallel question of enforcement where maintenance has allegedly not been paid.

Summary

A husband sought to rescind a consent maintenance order of $2,000 per month for his wife, embedded in a 2023 Interim Judgment, on the basis that she had fraudulently misrepresented that the figure was merely "symbolic" and would never be enforced. The wife simultaneously sought enforcement of $68,000 in arrears accumulated since the Final Judgment. District Judge Kevin Ho dismissed the husband's rescission application in its entirety, finding no fraudulent misrepresentation, and made an enforcement order for the full $68,000 in arrears, payable in instalments of $2,000 per month alongside the ongoing monthly maintenance, with a default three-day imprisonment term.

Can a consent maintenance order be rescinded for misrepresentation in Singapore family proceedings?

In YBG v YBH [2026] SGFC 50, District Judge Kevin Ho examined whether the wife-maintenance consent order in the Interim Judgment of 13 February 2023 — requiring S$2,000 per month — could be rescinded on the ground of fraudulent misrepresentation, alongside the Wife's concurrent enforcement summons filed in August 2025.

Cases Cited (17)

SG (8)
[2005] SGDC 83 [2012] SGDC 244 [2013] SGDC 355 [2016] SGHC 196 [2016] SGHC 197 [2021] SGFC 87 [2025] SGFC 112 [2025] SGFC 113
SLR (9)
[2013] 3 SLR 801 [2013] 4 SLR 308 [2014] 2 SLR 705 [2014] 4 SLR 559 [2018] 1 SLR 317 [2018] 3 SLR 177 [2020] 2 SLR 1256 [2024] 1 SLR 893 [2024] 2 SLR 767

Judgment

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Source: eLitigation ([2026] SGFC 50)