Recently we are dealing with two interesting cross-border divorce cases. The parties to the divorce don’t have habitual residence in China but they have real properties situated in China that need to be divided and partitioned. An interesting legal issue regarding the choice of applicable law appears here that doesn’t seem to be clear in judicial…
Pretty often I am approached by clients or by foreign peer attorneys inquiring about how they should deal with their China properties when they divorce in a foreign jurisdiction.
Some of them are too late when they call me. Kate (not the inquirer’s true name) is one of them.
She has been living with her husband in California for many years and now is the process…
A client from United States just got divorced with his American wife through court proceeding, and in the American court judgment, a piece of real estate that was bought by the couple in Shanghai China was ordered to be owned by the husband only and the husband in turn will pay a sum of money to the wife.
Now the question is whether and how the husband can remove…
There are always interesting issues coming up along the way I entertain inquiries from this law blog. It is worth to write them down just for people who may be looking for similar information and help.
Today, I got an email from a client in USA regarding an inheritance of a real property in Shanghai. The client’s father had just died recently in 2013, leaving…