Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the refusal of legal aid for the divorce appeal violated Art. 29(3) BV and Art. 117 ZPO because the appeal was not hopeless.
Decisione estratta
The complaint was not sufficiently directed against the decisive reasoning that the appeal was procedurally inadmissible due to late filing; the Federal Court therefore did not examine the merits.
Motivazione estratta
For legal aid in appellate proceedings, the relevant question is whether the appeal is likely to succeed; if it is clearly inadmissible or hopeless, legal aid may be refused. The appellant argued only that the merits were not hopeless and did not engage with the lower court's procedural inadmissibility reasoning.