Cap 192 s 29AB Applications for financial relief after divorce, etc. outside Hong Kong (MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	192	Title:	MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 175 of 2010
Section:	29AB	Heading:	Applications for financial relief after divorce, etc. outside Hong Kong	Version Date:	01/03/2011

(1) If—

(a) a marriage has been dissolved or annulled, or the parties to a marriage have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in a place outside Hong Kong; and

(b) the divorce, annulment or legal separation is recognized as valid by the law of Hong Kong,

either of the parties to the marriage may apply to the court in accordance with rules of court for an order for financial relief.
(2) If after a marriage has been dissolved or annulled in a place outside Hong Kong, one of the parties to the marriage remarries, that party is not entitled to make an application in relation to that marriage.