Source: JobTube, Arianna J., Freya W., Josh B.
On September 18th, 2019, news about a New Zealand man, named Huang, and a Chinese woman Song, who went to court again, three years after their divorce, was covered nationwide by Chinese media.
In 2008, Song and Huang got married in Shanghai. Shortly after, their son was born. However, due to the age difference of 18 years, their personality and cultural barriers gradually caused them to have issues, resulting in their divorce in 2016. As for the court mediation, they reached an agreement for their son to live with Song, and Huang to pay child support of $55,000 per year from June 2016 until his son turned 18 years old.
Shortly, the two sides signed a divorce agreement, which stipulated that Mr. Huang pay $55,000 a year for the support of his son. The agreement also included covering all the expenses of Ms. Song and their son in Shanghai, before they moved to Australia. This included rent, daily expenses, education and more, which totaled 83,000 Yuan a month.
Why $55,000 Per Year? And 83,000 Yuan Per Month?
In 2017, due to not receiving the full amount of monthly living expenses from June 2016 to December 2017, Ms. Song took Mr. Huang to court, although he had paid his son's support fee of $55,000 for that year.
As per Mr. Huang, previously when negotiating the divorce, Ms. Song already said that she and their son would emigrate to Australia by the end of 2016, thus the $55,000 was already based on the cost of their son's living and studying in Australia, rather than China.
As for the monthly living expenses of 83,000 Yuan, it was a verbal agreement on the premise that she would take their son to Australia within half a year, not forever.
Thus, Mr. Huang pointed out that he had paid the maintenance fee of $55,000 and living expenses of 560,000 Yuan and thus refused Song's request.
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