Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court committed overly formalistic or arbitrary reasoning by treating the appeal as an Art. 170 ZGB information request rather than a maintenance-modification claim
Extracted holding
No. The Federal Court held that the cantonal court reasonably relied on the appellant's own appellate and later submissions, which showed a shift toward an information request.
Extracted reasoning
The appellate pleadings were internally inconsistent, and the later written clarification unambiguously stated that the initial filing was not yet a modification request. Relying on that clarification was neither arbitrary nor overly formalistic.