Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)


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Art. 291 Conciliation hearing

1 The court shall sum­mon the parties to a hear­ing and es­tab­lish wheth­er there are grounds for di­vorce.

2 If grounds for di­vorce are es­tab­lished, the court shall at­tempt to se­cure an agree­ment between the spouses with re­gard to the ef­fects of the di­vorce.

3 If grounds for di­vorce are not es­tab­lished or if an agree­ment can­not be reached, the court shall give the plaintiff the op­por­tun­ity to state or add to the grounds. The pro­ceed­ings shall be con­tin­ued with the parties as ad­versar­ies. The sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ure ap­plies.221

221 Amended by No I of the FA of 17 March 2023 (Im­prov­ing Prac­tic­al­ity and Law En­force­ment), in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2023 491; BBl 2020 2697).

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