Swiss Civil Code

¹ Fam­ily al­low­ance cred­its paid to the par­ent re­quired to pay main­ten­ance must be paid in ad­di­tion to the main­ten­ance.

² Un­less the court rules oth­er­wise, any child al­low­ance, so­cial se­cur­ity chil­dren’s sup­ple­ment and sim­il­ar child sup­port be­ne­fits to which the par­ent sub­ject to the duty of main­ten­ance is en­titled must be paid in ad­di­tion to the child main­ten­ance con­tri­bu­tion.

³ Where as a res­ult of old age or in­valid­ity the par­ent sub­ject to the duty of main­ten­ance sub­sequently re­ceives so­cial se­cur­ity, chil­dren’s sup­ple­ments or sim­il­ar child sup­port be­ne­fits which re­place his or her em­ploy­ment in­come, he or she must pay said be­ne­fits to the child; by op­er­a­tion of law, his or her ex­ist­ing child main­ten­ance con­tri­bu­tion is auto­mat­ic­ally re­duced by the amount of such new be­ne­fits.