Question juridique clé
Whether the conditions for an employer/debtor notice under Art. 177 CC were met despite a parallel seizure.
Solution extraite
Yes. The husband's non-payment was characterized, because he had stopped paying maintenance since May 2011 and was not required to pay the full amount to the enforcement office after the seizure was limited to the wife's minimum vital needs.
Motifs extraits
A debt notice requires a clearly established and enduring failure to pay. The earlier seizure did not eliminate the husband's duty to pay the non-seized remainder directly to the wife; his continued non-payment therefore justified the measure.