Living standard scrapped as alimony parameter (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, May 10 - 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".