Questione giuridica chiave
Whether accident-related insurance payments had to be treated as the wife’s income for post-divorce maintenance
Decisione estratta
The payments were not treated as income for maintenance purposes because they were meant to cover accident-related extra costs, not to replace earnings.
Motivazione estratta
The Federal Court held that the wife received no current earning-replacement benefit from the liability insurer; the payments covered increased living, medical, care, and home costs caused by the accident. Therefore the cantonal court correctly based maintenance on the income she could have earned without the accident.