Questão jurídica principal
Whether the wife was entitled to additional or longer post-divorce maintenance under Art. 125 ZGB, considering a long premarital cohabitation period.
Decisão extraída
The premarital cohabitation could not, on the facts, make the short childless marriage life-shaping; the lower court correctly denied further maintenance beyond the already awarded temporary support.
Fundamentação extraída
A premarital cohabitation period is relevant only in exceptional, qualified cases where it has already decisively shaped the parties' lives and the marriage merely confirms an existing reliance position. Here both spouses were fully employed before and during the relationship, there were no children, and no comparable sacrifice or assumption of responsibility by the wife was shown. The statutory focus remains the duration of the marriage, not the cohabitation period.