Key legal question
Whether maintenance under Art. 277 para. 2 ZGB was still reasonable despite the broken personal relationship between father and adult daughter.
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the history of the divorce, the daughter's youth at the time, and the overall circumstances, the responsibility for the estrangement did not lie solely with her, so maintenance remained reasonable.
Extracted reasoning
The court deferred to the cantonal court's discretionary assessment. The estrangement stemmed largely from the parents' acrimonious divorce and later tensions, and the daughter's refusal of contact was understandable and not seriously culpable in the circumstances.