Question juridique clé
Whether the Geneva courts could refuse the action for supplement of the French divorce judgment on res judicata grounds.
Solution extraite
The res judicata objection was unfounded because the French judge had not specifically and sufficiently addressed the husband's Swiss pension assets.
Motifs extraits
A compensatory payment under French law is conceptually distinct from the Swiss statutory division of occupational pension assets. The divorce judgment contained no express reference to the pension assets, and the material before the French court did not allow a finding that those assets had been directly or indirectly determined.