Federal Act on the Registered Partnership between Same-Sex Couples

¹After the dis­sol­u­tion of the re­gistered part­ner­ship, each part­ner is ba­sic­ally re­spons­ible for his or her own main­ten­ance.

²A per­son who, due to the di­vi­sion of du­ties, has been un­able or had lim­ited op­por­tun­ity to work dur­ing the re­gistered part­ner­ship, may de­mand ap­pro­pri­ate main­ten­ance pay­ments from their part­ner un­til they can main­tain them­selves from their own gain­ful activ­ity.

³Fur­ther­more, a per­son may de­mand ap­pro­pri­ate main­ten­ance pay­ments if they be­come in­di­gent due to the dis­sol­u­tion of the re­gistered part­ner­ship and the part­ner can be ex­pec­ted to pay the main­ten­ance pay­ments in the over­all cir­cum­stances.

⁴Art­icle 125 para­graphs 2 and 3 as well as 126–134 CC¹ is oth­er­wise ap­plic­able mu­tatis mutandis.²