Federal Act on the Registered Partnership between Same-Sex Couples

¹The two part­ners shall each con­trib­ute, as far as they are able, to the prop­er main­ten­ance of their part­ner­ship. In ad­di­tion, Art­icles 163–165 of the Civil Code (CC)¹ ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis.²

²If they can­not agree, the court shall on re­quest de­term­ine the fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tions to­wards main­ten­ance. The con­tri­bu­tions may be claimed for the fu­ture and for the year be­fore fil­ing the claim.

³If a part­ner does not ful­fil his or her duty of main­ten­ance, the court may in­struct his or her debt­ors to make the pay­ments in whole or in part to the oth­er part­ner.