Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the divorce maintenance award could be modified or extinguished because of the husband's retirement and reduced income.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The pension-related income loss was deemed foreseeable when the maintenance agreement was concluded and was therefore already taken into account.
Extrahierte Begründung
A modification requires an essential, lasting, and unforeseeable change of circumstances. Here, the court found that the parties, through their lawyers, had contemplated a lifelong maintenance obligation and that the financial consequences of retirement under the pension system were foreseeable at the time of the divorce agreement.