Italy's supreme Cassation Court on
Wednesday 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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