Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the husband was entitled to provisional spousal maintenance during the divorce proceedings
Extrahierter Entscheid
The lower court used an irrelevant criterion by denying maintenance solely because the marriage had not decisively influenced the husband's life; the case had to be sent back for proper assessment of the parties' finances and needs.
Extrahierte Begründung
For provisional measures, the judge must start from the spouses' agreement and the duty of mutual support under Art. 163 CC, then consider the consequences of separation and the spouses' current standard of living. The decisive issue of whether the marriage influenced the claimant's economic situation belongs to the divorce merits, not to provisional measures.