Swiss Civil Code

¹ Ad­op­tion is pro­nounced by the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity at the ad­opt­ive par­ents’ dom­i­cile.

² The ad­op­tion re­quire­ments must already be met when the ap­plic­a­tion is sub­mit­ted.³⁰⁵

³ Once the ap­plic­a­tion has been sub­mit­ted, the death or loss of ca­pa­city of judge­ment of the per­son wish­ing to ad­opt does not pre­clude the ad­op­tion provided the oth­er re­quire­ments are still ful­filled.³⁰⁶

⁴ If the child at­tains the age of ma­jor­ity after the ap­plic­a­tion for ad­op­tion has been sub­mit­ted, the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the ad­op­tion of minors con­tin­ue to ap­ply provided the re­quire­ments for ad­op­tion were pre­vi­ously ful­filled.³⁰⁷

⁵ The ad­op­tion de­cision shall con­tain all the in­form­a­tion re­quired for entry in the civil re­gister re­lat­ing to the first name, sur­name and cit­izen­ship of the ad­op­ted per­son.³⁰⁸