Question juridique clé
Whether the wife was entitled to an adequate pension compensation under Art. 124 CC and in what amount.
Solution extraite
The wife was entitled to an adequate compensation of CHF 139,871, corresponding to half of the husband’s vested benefits accrued during marriage.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Court upheld the cantonal court’s equity-based assessment, finding the marriage short but the wife’s retirement needs relevant. The husband’s challenge to the vested-benefit amount relied on an inadmissible new document and was not convincingly shown to be arbitrary.