Swiss Civil Procedure Code

Con­cili­ation pro­ceed­ings are not held:

a.

in sum­mary pro­ceed­ings;

b.

in pro­ceed­ings on civil status;

b^bis.¹

in pro­ceed­ings on child main­ten­ance and oth­er child-re­lated is­sues if a par­ent has re­ques­ted the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity to in­ter­vene be­fore the pro­ceed­ings (Art. 298b and 298d CC²);

c.

in di­vorce pro­ceed­ings;

d.³

in pro­ceed­ings for the dis­sol­u­tion or an­nul­ment of a re­gistered part­ner­ship;

e.

for the fol­low­ing ac­tions arising from the DEBA⁴:

1.

ac­tion for re­lease from a debt (Art. 83 para. 2 DEBA),

2.

ac­tion for a de­clar­at­ory judg­ment (Art. 85a DEBA),

3.

third party ac­tion (Art. 106-109 DEBA),

4.

ac­tion for par­ti­cip­a­tion (Art. 111 DEBA),

5.

third party ac­tions and ac­tions by the bank­rupt es­tate (Art. 242 DEBA),

6.

ac­tion to chal­lenge the sched­ule of claims (Art. 148 and 250 DEBA),

7.

ac­tion to as­cer­tain new as­sets (Art. 265a DEBA),

8.

ac­tion for the re­cov­ery of items that are sub­ject to the right of re­ten­tion (Art. 284 DEBA);

f.

in dis­putes for which a court of sole can­ton­al in­stance has jur­is­dic­tion pur­su­ant to Art­icles 5 and 6;

g.

for prin­cip­al in­ter­ven­tion, coun­ter­claim and third party ac­tions;

h.

if the court has set a dead­line for fil­ing the ac­tion.