Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the Geneva court had to dismiss the wife's second divorce action for lis pendens because her first divorce action was still pending.
Decisione estratta
No. The two actions had different legal bases, were brought before the same judge, and the first action had become without object once the objective Art. 114 CC ground was invoked; there was therefore no lis pendens bar.
Motivazione estratta
Lis pendens aims to avoid parallel proceedings before different courts on the same object and between the same parties. Here, Art. 115 CC is subsidiary to Art. 114 CC. Once two years' separation was reached, the interest in the Art. 115 CC action disappeared; the risk of contradictory judgments was excluded.