Swiss Civil Code

¹ An adult may be ad­op­ted if:

1.

he or she is per­man­ently in need of help for phys­ic­al, men­tal or psy­cho­lo­gic­al reas­ons and the per­sons wish­ing to ad­opt have looked after him or her for at least one year;

2.

the per­sons wish­ing to ad­opt raised and cared for the per­son for at least one year while he or she was still a minor; or

3.

there are oth­er good reas­ons and he or she has lived in the same house­hold with the per­sons wish­ing to ad­opt for at least one year.

² In all oth­er re­spects, the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing ad­op­tion of minors ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis, with the ex­cep­tion of the pro­vi­sion on par­ent­al con­sent.