Supreme Court provides legal definition of “dissipated lifestyle”

The Supreme Court has legally defined the term “dissipated lifestyle”, which constitutes grounds for divorce or disinheriting a relative. According to the court’s definition a dissipated lifestyle constitutes long-term neglect of family and children, alcohol or drug abuse and obsessive gambling, as well as repeated criminal offenses. The court was led to provide a precise legal definition of the term in connection with a controversial court case in which a father disinherited his son for his dissipated lifestyle. The court upheld the father’s decision.