Swiss Civil Code

¹ Spouses sub­ject to the stat­utory mar­it­al prop­erty re­gime of uni­on of prop­erty who have not changed this mar­it­al prop­erty re­gime by mar­it­al agree­ment may by one year at the latest after the new law comes in­to force elect to re­tain the uni­on of prop­erty re­gime by fil­ing a joint writ­ten de­clar­a­tion with the mar­it­al prop­erty re­gister of­fice at their dom­i­cile; the mar­it­al prop­erty re­gister of­fice shall main­tain a re­gister of such de­clar­a­tions that any­one may in­spect.

² The mar­it­al prop­erty re­gime may only be cited in op­pos­i­tion to a third party if that third party is or should be aware of it.

³ The new reg­u­la­tions on the sep­ar­a­tion of prop­erty ap­ply in fu­ture to the spouses' sep­ar­ate prop­erty.