Swiss Civil Code

¹ At the re­quest of one spouse, the court shall or­der a sep­ar­a­tion of prop­erty where there is good cause to do so.

² In par­tic­u­lar, good cause ex­ists:

1.

if the oth­er spouse is over­indebted or his or her share of the com­mon prop­erty has been dis­trained;

2.

if the oth­er spouse is en­dan­ger­ing the in­terests of the ap­plic­ant or of the mar­it­al uni­on;

3.

if the oth­er spouse un­reas­on­ably with­holds the con­sent re­quired for the dis­pos­al of com­mon prop­erty;

4.

if the oth­er spouse re­fuses to provide the ap­plic­ant with in­form­a­tion con­cern­ing his or her in­come, as­sets and debts or con­cern­ing com­mon prop­erty;

5.

if the oth­er spouse per­man­ently lacks ca­pa­city of judge­ment.

³ Where a spouse per­man­ently lacks ca­pa­city of judge­ment, his or her leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive may like­wise re­quest sep­ar­a­tion of prop­erty for this reas­on.