Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal against the child-support assessment was admissible and well-founded because the lower court calculated the husband's capacity on the basis of his second family.
Decisão extraída
The child-support assessment could still be reviewed, and the lower court had erred by anchoring the debtor's minimum subsistence to the needs of the second family rather than to his own minimum needs.
Fundamentação extraída
Because spouse maintenance was appealed, child maintenance was also open for review under former Art. 148(1) CC. Child maintenance is governed by the official inquiry principle and can be reduced even if only the spouse's maintenance is challenged. The court held that the debtor's subsistence minimum protects only him personally, not his whole second family.