Swiss Civil Code

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Art. 38

4. Ef­fect

 

1If no news is re­ceived dur­ing the set peri­od, the miss­ing per­son is de­clared pre­sumed dead and rights de­rived from the fact of his or her death may be en­forced as if death were proven.

2The de­clar­a­tion of pre­sumed death has ret­ro­act­ive ef­fect from the time of the life-threat­en­ing event or the last sign of life.

3A de­clar­a­tion of pre­sumed death dis­solves a mar­riage.1

1 In­ser­ted by No I 4 of the FA of 26 June 1998, in force since 1 Jan. 2000 (AS 1999 1118; BBl 1996 I 1).

 
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