Questão jurídica principal
Whether the public law appeal against the Geneva appellate judgment was admissible and whether the appellant had an актуal legal interest.
Decisão extraída
The appeal was admissible because the challenged judgment increased the maintenance burden in practice and the appellant retained an actual interest in its annulment.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court held that, due to the reformatio in pejus prohibition, a new cantonal decision could not lower the award below the first-instance amount; the exclusion of the spouse allowance effectively increased the maintenance.