Italy's supreme Court of Cassation
on Wednesday published a ruling that ends a conflict of
jurisprudence created by a previous sentence which said that
former spouse's standard of living during a marriage was not the
parameter for alimony payments.
The new ruling said that alimony payments should be based on
"composite criteria" that takes account of the "respective
economic-asset situations" and "gives particular importance to
the contribution of the ex spouse... to the common and personal
patrimony, in relation to the length of the marriage, the future
earning potential and age".
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