Key legal question
Whether the wife’s conduct justified refusing or reducing maintenance under Art. 125 al. 3 CC
Extracted holding
The wife’s insulting and threatening conduct was blameworthy but not sufficiently grave to make a maintenance claim manifestly inequitable or to justify refusal or reduction under Art. 125 al. 3 CC.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 125 al. 3 CC must be applied restrictively; only conduct comparable in gravity to the statutory examples can justify denial or reduction. The alleged insults and threats, though punishable, were not shown to amount to a grave criminal offence or comparable misconduct, especially since no criminal complaint was filed.