Question juridique clé
Whether the maintenance reduction from CHF 3,700 to CHF 3,000 for 2009-2010 was lawful
Solution extraite
No. The wife could not realistically be expected to earn income, no hypothetical income was properly imputable, and the husband’s inherited property income had to be counted in full.
Motifs extraits
The cantonal court relied on irrelevant considerations: the wife had already been supported at CHF 4,400 during the period when she could still work, so she could not be blamed for not seeking work; an AI pension was neither established nor sufficiently probable; and income from inherited property is part of the debtor’s resources regardless of its matrimonial property status.