Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ The ac­know­ledg­ment made abroad is re­cog­nised in Switzer­land, if it is val­id in the state of the child’s ha­bitu­al res­id­ence, in the child’s state of cit­izen­ship, or in the state of dom­i­cile or the state of cit­izen­ship of the moth­er or the fath­er.

² For­eign de­cisions on the chal­lenge of an ac­know­ledg­ment are re­cog­nised in Switzer­land if they were rendered in one of the states men­tioned in para­graph 1.