Swiss Civil Code

¹ Where there is no oth­er way to avert a threat to the child’s best in­terests, the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity must re­move the child from the par­ents or from any third parties with whom he or she is stay­ing and place the child in a suit­able loc­a­tion.

² At the re­quest of the par­ents or the child, the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity must do like­wise if re­la­tions between them have de­teri­or­ated to the ex­tent that it is no longer con­scion­able for the child to re­main in the fam­ily home and provided no oth­er prac­tic­al rem­edy is avail­able in the cir­cum­stances.

³ Where a child has lived for some length of time with foster par­ents, the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity may for­bid the par­ents to take the child back if such ac­tion might pose a ser­i­ous risk to the child’s de­vel­op­ment.