Question juridique clé
Whether denying a provision ad litem as incompatible with the husband’s agreed maintenance payments was arbitrary
Solution extraite
The canton court’s reasoning was arbitrary because the duty to pay maintenance is prior to both the provision ad litem and the husband’s own litigation advances; however, the challenged decision was not shown to be untenable in its result.
Motifs extraits
The court held that maintenance obligations are prior to litigation advances and that the judge should not, when fixing maintenance, take the debtor spouse’s future litigation advances into account. Yet the appellant relied on a fact not found in the challenged judgment, so the claim that he had a right to a provision ad litem could not succeed.