Federal Act
on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy
(DEBA)¹

¹ Either spouse may as­sert in the third-party claims pro­ced­ure (Arts 106-109) that a dis­trained as­set is the per­son­al prop­erty of the debt­or’s spouse.

² If the debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings are lim­ited to the debt­or’s share of the com­mon prop­erty in ad­di­tion to his in­di­vidu­al prop­erty, either spouse may also op­pose the dis­traint of items of com­mon prop­erty un­der the third-party claims pro­ced­ure (Arts 106-109).

³ If debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings for sat­is­fac­tion from in­di­vidu­al prop­erty and the share in the com­mon prop­erty are con­tin­ued, dis­traint and real­isa­tion of the share in the com­mon prop­erty are gov­erned by Art­icle 132; the right to dis­train the fu­ture earned in­come of the spouse sub­ject to debt en­force­ment re­mains re­served (Art. 93).¹³⁶

⁴ A spouse’s share of the com­mon prop­erty may not be auc­tioned.

⁵The su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may re­quest the judge to or­der the sep­ar­a­tion of prop­erty.