Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the defendant acted with eventual intent when he did not seek better-paid employment and did not claim possible unemployment-related compensation.
Decisione estratta
The defendant seriously considered that he might have had a right to compensation if he declared his work as interim income and sought better-paid employment, and his failure to act nevertheless amounted to eventual intent.
Motivazione estratta
The appellate court had clarified the decisive factual question on remand. That factual finding was binding in cassation. Once he seriously contemplated the possibility of additional lawful means and still refrained from pursuing them, he consciously accepted the resulting shortfall in maintenance payments.