Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court ignored decisive evidence and thereby violated the wife's right to be heard in assessing serious reasons for divorce.
Extracted holding
Yes. The court overlooked file evidence, including a medical certificate and witness statements, that could demonstrate severe marital difficulties and violence.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court found that the cantonal reasoning omitted relevant pieces of evidence from the file. Those documents were capable of showing depression linked partly to family conflict and the wife's distress at leaving the marital home, so they had to be examined under Art. 115 CC.