Questão jurídica principal
Whether the new divorce law applied to the pending divorce and maintenance issues
Decisão extraída
The new divorce law applied because the divorce action was filed after 1 January 2000; the old rules on divorce by separation no longer governed the case.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 7a SchlT ZGB made the new law applicable to newly filed divorce proceedings, including ancillary effects; Art. 1 SchlT ZGB did not protect the wife because no vested right was at stake.