JUDGMENT

Evrol Mariette Peters J:

Introduction

[1] This was the Petitioner's application in encl 6 for interim reliefs pertaining to assets and the child of the marriage.

[2] However, before the hearing of this application, the Respondent raised a preliminary objection that the Court had no jurisdiction on ground that the Petitioner had failed to meet the requirement of 'residence', and as such, both enclosure 6 and the petition for judicial separation filed by the Petitioner should be struck out.

The Factual Background

[3] The Petitioner, a United Kingdom ("UK") citizen, and the Respondent, a Malaysian national (collectively referred to as "the Parties"), were 58 and 38 years old respectively at the time of the hearing of this application. The Parties were married in Singapore in August 2016 and subsequently registered their marriage in Malaysia in September 2017. It was the Petitioner's second marriage and the Respondent's first. In January 2022, the Parties welcomed a daughter ("the Child").

[4] After the marriage, the Parties resided at various locations before the Respondent finally settled in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur known as "the Millerz Home". The Petitioner runs a start-up