Swiss Civil Code

¹ If oth­er child pro­tec­tion meas­ures have failed or of­fer little pro­spect of prov­ing ad­equate, the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity shall re­voke par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity:⁴²⁰

1.⁴²¹

if the par­ents are un­able to ex­er­cise par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity as re­quired on ac­count of in­ex­per­i­ence, ill­ness, dis­ab­il­ity, ab­sence, vi­ol­ent be­ha­viour or oth­er sim­il­ar reas­ons;

2.

if the par­ents have not cared for the child to any mean­ing­ful de­gree or have flag­rantly vi­ol­ated their du­ties to­wards the child.

² Where par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity is with­drawn from both par­ents, a leg­al guard­i­an is ap­poin­ted for their chil­dren.

³ Un­less ex­pressly ordered oth­er­wise, the with­draw­al of par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity is ef­fect­ive in re­spect of all the chil­dren, in­clud­ing those born sub­sequently.