Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the cantonal appellate court correctly refused to hear the appeal because the requests were defective and unquantified.
Decisione estratta
Yes. Relief requests in an appeal must be specific and, for monetary claims, quantified; otherwise the appeal is inadmissible unless the requested amount is clear from the reasoning. That was not the case here.
Motivazione estratta
The husband's submissions attacked only the reasoning on maintenance and did not state a clear reduction amount or temporal structure. No exception for overly formalism applied because neither the appeal requests nor the reasoning allowed the court to determine the amount sought.