Questão jurídica principal
Whether post-divorce maintenance under Art. 125 ZGB should be denied because the wife can meet her needs through self-support.
Decisão extraída
Because the wife can earn enough to match the marital standard of living, there is no room for post-divorce maintenance.
Fundamentação extraída
For a lifelong marriage, the court reiterated a three-step method: determine the marital standard of living, examine each spouse's self-support capacity, then assess the payer's ability. The lower court had not properly fixed the marital standard, but on the facts the wife's imputed income of CHF 3,690 and even her actual income showed she could reach the standard previously financed by the parties' joint income; therefore no maintenance was due.