Key legal question
Whether post-divorce maintenance under Art. 125 ZGB was owed despite the short marriage and separation period.
Extracted holding
The marriage was life-shaping because the wife gave up full-time work at age 53 to care for the husband's son; maintenance was therefore in principle owed.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the short separation period counts toward the marriage duration, but the marriage still was not presumptively life-shaping by duration alone. Independent life-shaping elements existed because the wife relinquished her employment to care for the husband's child.