Question juridique clé
Whether the federal complaint against the cantonal supervisory decision on the arrest execution should be allowed because the debtor’s subsistence minimum had to be invaded for maintenance claims and because the attached salary should be fixed at a higher disposable amount.
Solution extraite
The complaint was dismissed: for maintenance claims based on arrears that were already several years old, the debtor’s subsistence minimum could no longer be invaded; the alleged additional income was either new and inadmissible or hypothetical and therefore could not be considered.
Motifs extraits
The court held that the exception allowing an invasion of the debtor’s minimum subsistence applies only to maintenance claims from the last year before service of the payment order, or here before service of the arrest order. The claims underlying the arrest were far older, so the privilege did not apply. New factual allegations could not be raised before the Federal Court, and hypothetical income calculations were impermissible.