Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Geneva courts had jurisdiction to decide provisional maintenance for wife and child during the pending French divorce
Decisão extraída
No. The foreign divorce court retained provisional jurisdiction; the conditions for Swiss provisional jurisdiction under former Art. 10 LDIP were not met.
Fundamentação extraída
The request was not an independent new claim but a request to modify an existing French provisional maintenance regime after a change of circumstances. The wife did not show urgency or inability to obtain a timely French decision, and the asserted change of residence and exchange rates did not make the cantonal finding arbitrary.