Divorce ancillary relief: requests in instruction proceedings

RBOG 1997 Nr. 03Autre juridiction10 nov. 1997

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Résumé Omnilex

The Obergericht clarified, under Art. 153 aZPO (TG), that party statements on maintenance made during instruction proceedings are generally not binding if no divorce settlement was concluded there. However, this non-binding effect presupposes that the parties submit concrete requests no later than at the main hearing. If no such requests are made and the earlier statements are not withdrawn, the court must rely on the instruction-stage declarations because no other request exists.

Regeste Omnilex

Art. 153 aZPO (TG); binding effect of statements made during instruction proceedings in divorce ancillary matters. Statements made in instruction hearings are, as a rule, not binding where no settlement is concluded in that phase. This does not dispense with the duty to formulate concrete requests at the latest at the main hearing. If no concrete request is made there and earlier declarations are not expressly withdrawn, the court may, in the absence of any other request, rely on those earlier declarations as the operative basis for decision (precisely RBOG 1994 Nr. 3; consid. not stated).

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Nebenfolgen der Scheidung: Ausnahmsweise Bindung an die Anträge im Instruktionsverfahren; Präzisierung von RBOG 1994 Nr. 3

§ 153 aZPO (TG)

Nach der Rechtsprechung des Obergerichts besteht grundsätzlich keine Bindung an Äusserungen einer Partei über die Höhe von Unterhaltsbeiträgen im Instruktionsverfahren, sofern innerhalb desselben nicht eine Scheidungskonvention abgeschlossen wird (RBOG 1994 Nr. 3). Dass Erklärungen der Parteien während der Instruktionseinvernahmen ohne Wirkung bleiben, bedingt freilich, dass spätestens in der Hauptverhandlung konkrete Anträge gestellt werden. Werden jedoch in der Hauptverhandlung keine konkreten Anträge gestellt und frühere anlässlich der Instruktionseinvernahme geäusserte Parteierklärungen nicht widerrufen, bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als mangels eines anderen Antrags auf die Erklärungen in der Instruktionseinvernahme abzustellen.

Obergericht, 10. November 1997, ZB 97 57

Mots-clés

divorceancillary reliefmaintenanceprocedural requestsinstruction hearing

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Question juridique clé

Whether statements on maintenance made during instruction proceedings bind the court if no divorce settlement was concluded there and no concrete requests were made at the main hearing.

Solution extraite

As a rule, statements made during instruction hearings are not binding. But if no concrete requests are made at the main hearing and the earlier statements are not withdrawn, the court must rely on those earlier statements for lack of any other request.

Motifs extraits

The court refined its earlier case law: non-binding effect of instruction-stage statements presupposes that concrete requests are made at the latest at the main hearing. If that does not happen, and the prior declarations stand unretracted, the court may treat them as the operative requests.

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