Key legal question
Whether the father’s monthly child support for the two children should be reduced from CHF 700 to CHF 450 per child.
Extracted holding
The reduction was refused; the first-instance child support of CHF 700 per child remained appropriate.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the mother’s income, insofar as it exceeded the level relevant for her own maintenance while she provided primary care, should not be redistributed to the children. That would create an unintended participation in the children’s cash maintenance. Her extensive employment and caregiving constituted substantial natural support, and the first-instance calculation complied with the governing principles.