Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the cantonal court wrongly excluded documents submitted only at the appellate hearing under Art. 138 ZGB and cantonal procedural law.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Art. 138 ZGB guarantees a federal minimum standard, but cantonal rules may require novae to be submitted by a certain procedural deadline; excluding the late documents was therefore permissible.
Extrahierte Begründung
The Federal Supreme Court held that Art. 138 ZGB does not prevent cantonal formal rules on the timing of new facts and evidence in second instance. A challenge to the cantonal interpretation of its own procedural law would have required a constitutional complaint, not an appeal on the merits.