Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the Geneva courts had jurisdiction to decide provisional maintenance for wife and child during the pending French divorce
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The foreign divorce court retained provisional jurisdiction; the conditions for Swiss provisional jurisdiction under former Art. 10 LDIP were not met.
Extrahierte Begründung
The request was not an independent new claim but a request to modify an existing French provisional maintenance regime after a change of circumstances. The wife did not show urgency or inability to obtain a timely French decision, and the asserted change of residence and exchange rates did not make the cantonal finding arbitrary.