Swiss Civil Code

¹If the sus­pen­sion of the joint house­hold is jus­ti­fied, at the re­quest of one spouse the court will:

1.¹

de­term­ine the main­ten­ance paid to any chil­dren and the oth­er spouse;

2.

is­sue dir­ec­tions on the use of the home and the house­hold ef­fects;

3.

or­der a sep­ar­a­tion of prop­erty where jus­ti­fied in the cir­cum­stances.

²A spouse may also make such re­quest if liv­ing to­geth­er is im­possible, in par­tic­u­lar be­cause the oth­er spouse re­fuses to do so without good cause.

³If the spouses have minor chil­dren, the court must take the ne­ces­sary steps in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the leg­al ef­fects of the par­ent-child re­la­tion­ship.²