Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the divorce-modification action was hopeless for purposes of legal aid
Decisione estratta
The action was not hopeless because the legal question whether an agreed non-modifiable maintenance clause can be overridden when it threatens the debtor's subsistence minimum was unresolved and debated in doctrine.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that a summary assessment showed arguable prospects: the applicant alleged a severe and lasting deterioration of his assets, and the decisive conflict between contractual non-modifiability, Art. 127 ZGB, Art. 27(2) ZGB and rebus sic stantibus was not settled in case law.