Loh Swee Peng v Chan Kui Kok　[2015]　SGHC　64

The factor which weighs most strongly with me is that this is, by any measure, a very long marriage. At the date of the hearing, the marriage had endured for 42 years. The longevity of the emotional, parental, social and economic bond between the spouses is to my mind a very weighty factor that overshadows all others. In particular, it causes the importance of the precise ratio of the parties’ direct contributions which were made decades earlier and which I am now attempting assess decades later on imperfect and incomplete evidence to recede into the background. The length of the marriage is a factor which points towards the just and equitable division of the matrimonial assets being an equal division.

Dong Jianrong v Jiang Huaguo　[2015]　SGHC　56

Equality of division is neither ideal nor the norm (Lock Yeng Fun v Chua Hock Chye[2007] 3　SLR(R) 520 at [55]), but for long marriages such as this, the courts tend to lean towards equality of division. That is because there is no formula or means to determine the differential between the financial and non-financial contribution of the parties with precision. An equal division is also probably the closest the court can effect the parties’ declaration in their matrimonial vow of treating themselves as one.

Wong Sook Kuen v Loh Choon Fah　[2015]　SGHC　36

Equality of division is neither ideal nor the norm (Lock Yeng Fun v Chua Hock Chye　[2007] 3　SLR(R) 520 at [55]), but　for long marriages such as this, the courts tend to lean towards equality of division. That is because there is no formula or means to determine the differential between the financial and non-financial contribution of the parties with precision. An equal division is also probably the closest the court can effect the parties’ declaration in their matrimonial vow of treating themselves as one. Thus in the absence of a better formula, the court will consider equality as justice.

AOB v AOC　[2015]　SGHC　13

The parties have been married for more than 20　years. Equality of division is neither ideal nor the norm (Lock Yeng Fun v Chua Hock Chye　[2007] 3　SLR(R) 520 at [55]), but for long marriages such as this, the courts tend to lean towards equality of division. That is because there is no formula or means to determine the differential between the financial and non-financial contribution of the parties with precision. An equal division is also probably the closest the court can effect the parties’ declaration in their matrimonial vow of treating themselves as one. Thus in the absence of a better formula, the court will consider equality as justice.

Wong Kien Keong v Khoo Hoon Eng　[2013]　SGHC　275

96 I observed that in most of the cases identified in the sample above, where the wife received 35% of the matrimonial assets, the marriage was generally less than 20 years. On the other hand, for marriages more than 20 years, the wife was awarded 40%.