Questão jurídica principal
Whether the two-year separation period under Art. 114 ZGB must be fulfilled at the time of filing or at the time of the divorce judgment in pending proceedings.
Decisão extraída
It is sufficient that the two-year separation period was fulfilled when the new Art. 114 ZGB became applicable to the pending case; the period need not already have elapsed when the divorce action was filed.
Fundamentação extraída
The new divorce law applies immediately to pending proceedings. Prior case law under the earlier four-year separation period remained applicable by analogy: the decisive point is the satisfaction of the statutory separation period when the new law takes effect, not the date of filing the action. Here, the parties had been separated for nearly three and a half years when the amended provision entered into force.