Swiss Civil Code

¹The claim for as­sist­ance is dir­ec­ted against those with a duty to provide it in or­der of their in­her­it­ance en­ti­tle­ments; the amount is de­pend­ent on the de­gree of as­sist­ance re­quired to main­tain the in­di­gent claimant and on the cir­cum­stances of the per­son ob­liged to provide it.

^1bisNo claim for sup­port may be made if the hard­ship arises from a re­stric­tion in the abil­ity to pur­sue gain­ful em­ploy­ment ow­ing to the care of one’s own chil­dren.²

²Where in the light of spe­cial cir­cum­stances the court deems it in­equit­able to re­quire a per­son to ful­fil his duty of as­sist­ance, the court may re­strict such duty or re­voke it en­tirely.³

³The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing child main­ten­ance en­ti­tle­ment and the trans­fer of such en­ti­tle­ment to the state au­thor­ity are ap­plic­able mutatis mutandis.⁴