Key legal question
Whether maintenance can be ordered under Art. 176 ZGB when the spouses never lived in a common household.
Extracted holding
No. Because the parties never established a common household, there was no basis for fixing maintenance contributions in marital protection proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 176 ZGB presupposes the dissolution of a common household. Since no marital standard of living existed during cohabitation, there was nothing to adapt after separation.