Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the reduction of housing costs to CHF 2,500 net from 1 March 2002 and the five-month adjustment period were lawful.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The complaint failed: the debt collection office could set a reasonable adjustment period and limit housing costs to locally customary, appropriate housing expenses.
Extrahierte Begründung
A debtor must adjust living costs to the objective minimum; the office may allow time to reduce excessive housing expenses. The spouses could not rely on the land purchase right to defeat the adjustment period, and a 4½-room flat at CHF 2,500 net was not shown to be unreasonable.