Swiss Civil Code

¹ An ap­plic­a­tion for ad­op­tion may not be up­held un­til all ma­ter­i­al cir­cum­stances have been thor­oughly in­vest­ig­ated, where ne­ces­sary in con­sulta­tion with the rel­ev­ant spe­cial­ists.

² In par­tic­u­lar, the in­vest­ig­a­tion must look in­to the char­ac­ter and health of the per­sons wish­ing to ad­opt and the child, their mu­tu­al re­la­tion­ship, their suit­ab­il­ity as par­ents, their fin­an­cial situ­ation, motives and fam­ily cir­cum­stances and the his­tory of the child care re­la­tion­ship.²⁹⁸

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