Swiss Civil Code

¹A mar­riage does not be­come in­val­id un­til a court has de­clared it an­nulled; pri­or to such judg­ment it has all the ef­fects of a val­id mar­riage with the ex­cep­tion of claims un­der in­her­it­ance law, which in any event the sur­viv­ing spouse loses.

²The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing di­vorce ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to the ef­fects of a court de­clar­a­tion of an­nul­ment on the spouses and their chil­dren.

³The pre­sump­tion of pa­tern­ity in fa­vour of the hus­band does not ap­ply if the mar­riage is an­nulled be­cause it served to cir­cum­vent the pro­vi­sions on the ad­mis­sion and res­id­ence of for­eign na­tion­als.¹