AGNES WONG CHOI CHI

Practice Areas

Ms. Wong advises on estate planning, trusts, probate and estate administration, including cross-border matters involving assets and parties located outside Hong Kong. Her clients are from all walks of life, including private individuals, high net-worth clients, private and listed companies, professional trustees, Official Administrator of the High Court of HKSAR, religious bodies, charitable organizations and public authorities.

Ms. Wong is experienced in preparing wills, enduring power of attorney and deeds of family arrangement for the settlement of distribution of estates and advising on different legal issues. She is regularly called upon in applications for letters of administration, letters of administration (with will annexed), grant pending suit, grant de bonis non, probate and resealing of foreign grants in different scenarios for both local and overseas clients. She has solid and extensive experience in dealing with family disputes concerning the estate of a deceased person.

Ms. Wong’s practice also includes dealing with contentious probate cases, from propounding the will of a deceased to seeking court order or direction for the administration and distribution of the estate of a deceased (such as claims from illegitimate children, dependents and other interested parties, beddoe application etc), making applications for the appointment of management committees for mentally incapacitated persons and applications for making statutory will for mentally incapacitation persons, order for sale and other ancillary applications.

She acted for court-appointed executor and trustee and advised on a wide range of issues concerning validity of will(s), administration and distribution of estate of a deceased person. She advises and acts in claim pursuant to Wills Ordinance (Cap. 30), Probate and Administration Ordinance (Cap. 10), Non-Contentious Probate Rules (Cap. 10A), Intestates’ Estates Ordinance (Cap. 73), Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29) and Order 85 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4A).

In the recent case of Ho Wai Ping v. Ho Ka Man Carmen (HCAP 16 of 2009, CACV 17 of 2016, FAMV 6 of 2018), she acted for her client who successfully proved the validity of a will of a deceased according to section 5(2) of the Wills Ordinance Cap.30. The judgment was finalized by an Order of the Court of Final Appeal on 18th March 2019.