Key legal question
Whether the wife’s post-divorce maintenance should be calculated using the one-stage method rather than the two-stage method
Extracted holding
No. The court upheld the two-stage method with a prior deduction of the savings quota.
Extracted reasoning
Even in very good financial circumstances, the two-stage method remains permissible where the parties did not save beyond a limited quota or where the savings quota can be isolated before sharing the surplus. The husband’s new reliance on a one-stage method was raised too late and was not properly substantiated.