Swiss Civil Code

¹Par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity in­cludes the right to de­cide on the child's place of res­id­ence.

²If par­ents ex­er­cise joint par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity and if one par­ent wishes to change the child's place of res­id­ence, this re­quires the con­sent of the oth­er par­ent or a de­cision of the court or the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity if:

a.

the new place of res­id­ence is out­side Switzer­land; or

b.

the change of place of res­id­ence has ser­i­ous con­sequences for the abil­ity of the oth­er par­ent to ex­er­cise par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity and have con­tact.

³If one par­ent has sole par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity and if he or she wishes to change the child's place of res­id­ence, he must in­form the oth­er par­ent of this in good time.

⁴A par­ent who wishes to change his or her own dom­i­cile has the same duty to provide in­form­a­tion.

⁵If re­quired, the par­ents shall agree to modi­fy the rules on par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity, res­id­ence, con­tact and the child main­ten­ance con­tri­bu­tion in such a way as to safe­guard the child's best in­terests. If they are un­able to agree, the court or the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity de­cides.