Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily denied provisional spousal maintenance in divorce proceedings by relying on clean break and the length of separation
Decisão extraída
Yes. Provisional maintenance under Art. 137 CC remains based on the duty of support under Art. 163 CC; lack of reconciliation alone does not justify eliminating maintenance.
Fundamentação extraída
The appellate court could not suppress maintenance solely because the marriage was irretrievably broken and the divorce had lasted years. It had to assess the wife's need and the husband's ability to contribute; the clean-break idea does not abolish the support duty in interim measures.