Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court lacked competence to set spousal maintenance for a period after the divorce action was filed.
Extracted holding
The complaint could not be examined because the competence objection had not been raised before the cantonal last instance and was therefore not exhausted.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 86 al. 1 OJ, only grievances presented to the cantonal last instance are admissible in public law appeal; the alleged procedural defect was not grave enough to be raised ex officio.