Separation and Maintenance Orders Ordinance

(1A)
For the purpose of subsection
(1
)(
a
)(
ii)
, in deciding
                                whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the maintenance
                                payer will not make full and punctual payment in compliance with the
                                maintenance order, the court shall take into account all the
                                circumstances of the case, including (but not limited to
)—
(a)
the payer’s past record and conduct in discharging his
                                        reasonable financial obligation towards the designated payee
                                        before any maintenance order is made;
(b)
the payer’s past record and conduct in connection with the
                                        making of maintenance payments to the payee pursuant to the
                                        maintenance order or an undertaking in any proceedings;
                                        and
(c)
the risk of the payer dissipating his property.
(Added
20 of 2001 s. 3
)