Reduction of maintenance advance when recovery is hopeless

ATA/790/1998Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberDec 8, 1998Modified

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Omnilex summary

The court held that a reduction of a maintenance advance is justified under LARPA 8 when the chances of recovering the full claim are virtually nonexistent. On that basis, the requested reduction was allowed.

Omnilex headnote

LARPA 8; reduction of a maintenance advance: a reduction is warranted where recovery of the full claim is practically hopeless. The decisive criterion is the realistic prospect of collection; if this prospect is nearly absent, the continuation of the full advance is no longer justified (consid. not stated).

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Descripteurs

OBLIGATION D'ENTRETIEN; AVANCE(EN GENERAL); FIN; REDUCTION(EN GENERAL); IP

Normes

LARPA.8

Résumé

La réduction par le Scarpa du montant de l'avance est justifiée lorsqu'il apparaît que les chances de recouvrement de l'entier de la créance sont quasiment inexistantes.

Keywords

maintenance obligationadvancereductionrecovery prospectscollectioninsolvency

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the maintenance advance could be reduced under LARPA 8 because collection of the full claim was virtually impossible.

Extracted holding

Yes. The reduction was justified when the prospects of recovering the entire claim were almost nonexistent.

Extracted reasoning

LARPA 8 allows a reduction where enforcement or recovery of the advance would realistically fail; in such circumstances maintaining the full amount would no longer be justified.

Reduction of maintenance advance when recovery is hopelessAI generated