Key legal question
Whether the insured was exempted from the contribution-period requirement under Art. 14(2) LACI due to marital separation.
Extracted holding
No exemption applied because the separation was not the cause of the lack of contribution period; the insured had already been unsuccessfully seeking salaried work during the marriage.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 14(2) LACI requires a causal link both between the triggering event and the need to take or expand paid work and between that event and the absence of minimum contributions. Here, the insured had long sought salaried employment for reasons unrelated to the separation, so the lack of contributions was not caused by the marital separation.