Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The fol­low­ing per­sons have the right to re­fuse to co­oper­ate:

a.

any per­son who is or was mar­ried to or co­hab­its with a party;

b.

any per­son who has a child with a party;

c.

any per­son who is re­lated to a party by birth or mar­riage in dir­ect line or col­lat­er­ally up to the third de­gree;

d.

the foster par­ents, foster chil­dren and foster sib­lings of a party;

e.⁶⁷

the per­son ap­poin­ted guard­i­an or deputy for a party.

² A re­gistered part­ner­ship is deemed equi­val­ent to mar­riage.

³ Step-sib­lings are deemed equi­val­ent to sib­lings.