Key legal question
Whether the new divorce law applied to the pending divorce and maintenance issues
Extracted holding
The new divorce law applied because the divorce action was filed after 1 January 2000; the old rules on divorce by separation no longer governed the case.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 7a SchlT ZGB made the new law applicable to newly filed divorce proceedings, including ancillary effects; Art. 1 SchlT ZGB did not protect the wife because no vested right was at stake.