Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Federal Supreme Court could review the custody allocation to the mother.
Decisão extraída
Only the application of federal civil law was reviewable; challenges to facts, hearing rights, and legal aid failed for lack of last-instance exhaustion.
Fundamentação extraída
Those complaints had to be directed against the cantonal cassation decision, not directly against the appellate judgment; the Court could not enter into non-final issues.