Key legal question
Whether the marriage was life-shaping for purposes of post-divorce maintenance
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the parties' trust-based arrangement and the wife's complete economic dependence after leaving work, the cantonal court did not abuse its discretion in finding the marriage life-shaping.
Extracted reasoning
For marriages of roughly five to ten years there is no fixed presumption; the decisive factor is whether the concrete circumstances sustainably shaped the spouses' lives. The wife's withdrawal from employment to run the household, in reliance on the marriage, created a protected trust position.