Swiss Civil Code

¹ The con­sent of the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity is re­quired be­fore the deputy may carry out any of the fol­low­ing trans­ac­tions on be­half of the cli­ent:

1.

li­quid­a­tion of the house­hold, ter­min­at­ing the lease on a dwell­ing where the cli­ent lives;

2.

long-term con­tracts for the cli­ent's ac­com­mod­a­tion;

3.

ac­cept­ance or re­nun­ci­ation of a in­her­it­ance if an ex­press de­clar­a­tion is re­quired there­for, as well as con­tracts of suc­ces­sion and con­tracts di­vid­ing an es­tate;

4.

the ac­quis­i­tion, sale, pledge and oth­er bur­den­ing of im­mov­able prop­erty and the con­struc­tion of build­ings that goes bey­ond or­din­ary ad­min­is­trat­ive activ­it­ies;

5.

the ac­quis­i­tion, sale and pledge of oth­er as­sets and the cre­ation of a usu­fruct where such trans­ac­tions do not fall un­der the con­duct of or­din­ary ad­min­is­tra­tion and man­age­ment;

6.

the ac­cept­ance and grant­ing of sub­stan­tial loans, en­ter­ing in­to bill-of-ex­change-re­lated li­ab­il­it­ies;

7.

life an­nu­ity and life­time main­ten­ance agree­ments as well as life as­sur­ance, provided these do not form part of an oc­cu­pa­tion­al pen­sion in con­nec­tion with a con­tract of em­ploy­ment;

8.

the takeover or li­quid­a­tion of a busi­ness, in­volve­ment in a com­pany with per­son­al li­ab­il­ity or a sub­stan­tial cap­it­al par­ti­cip­a­tion;

9.

de­clar­a­tion of in­ab­il­ity to pay, con­duct of leg­al pro­ceed­ings, con­clu­sion of a set­tle­ment, an ar­bit­ra­tion agree­ment or a com­pos­i­tion agree­ment, sub­ject to the re­ser­va­tion of pro­vi­sion­al meas­ures by the deputy in cases of ur­gency.

² The adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity's con­sent is not re­quired if a cli­ent who is cap­able of judge­ment grants his or her con­sent and his or her ca­pa­city to act is not lim­ited by the deputy­ship.

³ Con­tracts between the deputy and the cli­ent shall al­ways re­quire the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity's con­sent oth­er than in the case of as­sign­ments is­sued by the cli­ent that do not in­volve the pay­ment of a fee.