Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the divorce alimony had to be abolished because the wife lived in a qualified concubinage.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The court upheld the finding that the partners lived in a stable, marriage-like union giving rise to the presumption that the rentenanspruch had lapsed.
Motivazione estratta
For pre-2000 divorce judgments, old law applied. In a qualified concubinage lasting over five years at the time the action was filed, a presumption arises that the relationship is a fate-like partnership comparable to marriage. The wife failed to rebut that presumption, even though sexual relations had ended, because the remaining circumstances showed mutual support and household/economic interdependence.