Key legal question
Whether the French default judgment concerning maintenance falls within the Lugano Convention and may be enforced in Switzerland.
Extracted holding
Yes. Because the foreign decision concerns maintenance within a divorce proceeding, the Lugano Convention applies and the related recognition/enforcement objections may be raised.
Extracted reasoning
The judgment ordered maintenance payments, not a non-covered family-law property claim; therefore Art. 1(2) LugÜ does not exclude it.