Facts
[A.A.] (appellant) brought two lawsuits against the estate community [B.A.] (respondent). The first lawsuit concerned the dissolution and division of co-ownership of the "Hotel Restaurant [X.] in [U.] " and was settled on July 30, 2013. The second lawsuit was about the dissolution of the hotel operating company, where the parties reached a court settlement on June 22, 2017.
The District Court of Visp decided that the court costs of CHF 37,700.-- would be halved between the parties and the party costs would be offset. The appellant appealed this decision to the Cantonal Court of Valais, which dismissed the appeal.
Considerations
The FSCA examined whether the lower court exercised discretion in allocating the costs and whether this was objectionable. It concluded that the lower court neither considered facts that should not have played a role, nor…