Swiss Civil Code

¹ At the re­quest of either par­ent, the child or ex of­fi­cio, the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity shall re­as­sign par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity if this is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard the child's best in­terests due to a sub­stan­tial change in cir­cum­stances.

² It may lim­it it­self to reg­u­lat­ing res­id­ence, con­tact or the shar­ing of par­ent­ing du­ties.

³ An ac­tion for a change to the main­ten­ance pay­ments may be brought to the com­pet­ent court; in such a case the court may make a new rul­ing on par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity and oth­er mat­ters re­lat­ing to the child.³⁸⁶