(ANSA) – Rome, April 10 – The criterion of the lifestyle
enjoyed during marriage must be used to calculate the amount of
alimony to be paid after a divorce, the prosecutor-general of
the supreme Cassation Court, Marcello Matera, proposed to the
supreme justices Tuesday.
The court is set to rule on a May 2017 sentence which
abolished the lifestyle criterion as a factor in totting up the
money owed.
The Cassation Court decision is expected in about a month.
On May 10 last year the Cassation Court scrapped previous
living standards as the key parameter for setting alimony
payments and instead said that future “self-sufficiency” should
be the guiding principle.
Living standards had framed the level of alimony for 30
years.
The ruling said that marriage is no longer “definitively
settling down” but “an act of freedom and self-responsibility”.
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