SINGAPORE, Jan 28 — A judge has ruled that a man should pay less than his ex-wife for maintenance of their child, after the woman asked for a 50:50 split when she had earned...
SINGAPORE, Jan 28 — A judge has ruled that a man should pay less than his ex-wife for maintenance of their child, after the woman asked for a 50:50 split when she had earned S$1.2 million over four years, double what the man did.
This was higher than the 30 per cent of S$3,450 he was initially ordered to pay by a district judge in February last year.The grounds of decision, which did not name the mother, the father or their child, stated that the mother was of the view that the district judge did not correctly determine the child’s reasonable expense when issuing the maintenance order.
On the other side, the father was of the position that the child's expenses had been correctly determined and that the district judge did not err in apportioning the sum between the parents, considering that the mother’s income far exceeded the father’s. Judge Ong said that both parents having equal duty to maintain the child “does not necessarily translate to bearing an equal quantum of maintenance”.Judge Ong also outlined how the mother had sought to increase the child’s reasonable expenses.
“Parties should show how their projected expenditure for the child’s expenses is reasonable having regard to all relevant circumstances, including the child’s standard of living and the parents’ financial means and resources.” “These are fundamentally parenting decisions”, the judge said, adding that “a court of law is not the most appropriate forum to resolve such parenting matters”.
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