Swiss Civil Code

¹ Di­vorce pro­ceed­ings are gov­erned by the new law as soon as the Fed­er­al Act of 26 June 1998⁷¹¹ has come in­to force.

² Di­vorces that had taken full leg­al ef­fect un­der the pre­vi­ous law re­main val­id; the new pro­vi­sions on en­force­ment ap­ply to peri­od­ic main­ten­ance pay­ments or lump sum set­tle­ment that are fixed as an al­tern­at­ive to main­ten­ance or as a main­ten­ance con­tri­bu­tion.

³ Any amend­ment of the di­vorce de­cree is car­ried out in ac­cord­ance with the pre­vi­ous law with the ex­cep­tion of the pro­vi­sions on chil­dren and pro­ced­ur­al mat­ters.