Swiss Civil Code

¹ If a spouse fails to ful­fil his or her du­ties to the fam­ily or if the spouses dis­agree on mat­ters of im­port­ance to the mar­it­al uni­on, they may ap­ply jointly or sep­ar­ately to the court for me­di­ation.

² The court re­minds the spouses of their du­ties and at­tempts to settle their dif­fer­ences; if the spouses con­sent, ex­perts may be con­sul­ted or they may be re­ferred to a mar­riage guid­ance or fam­ily coun­selling agency.

³ If ne­ces­sary, at the re­quest of one spouse the court will take the steps en­vis­aged by law. The pro­vi­sion gov­ern­ing the pro­tec­tion of the per­son from vi­ol­ence, threats or har­ass­ment ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.²³⁶