Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the husband was entitled to spousal maintenance under Art. 163 CC in protective measures proceedings.
Decisione estratta
No. Where the spouses deliberately lived in complete financial and personal independence and no new circumstance changed that arrangement, there is no basis to order maintenance.
Motivazione estratta
Art. 163 CC remains the basis of mutual maintenance even if reconciliation is unlikely, but the court must start from the spouses' actual or tacit convention. Here, the convention was total independence; neither spouse ever supported the other, so there was no changed circumstance requiring adaptation.