Questão jurídica principal
Whether the wife met the indigence requirement for legal aid despite a monthly surplus of CHF 105.
Decisão extraída
No. The surplus must be assessed against expected litigation and lawyer costs; here it would not allow payment within one year, and even a two-year period would not suffice for the total costs.
Fundamentação extraída
Legal aid may be refused only if the applicant can cover the expected court and counsel costs within a reasonable period. For less expensive cases this is one year, for more expensive cases two years. The total costs here were below the roughly CHF 5,000 threshold for a costly case, but CHF 105 per month would still not cover them within one year.