Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ If ne­ces­sary, the court shall ap­point a per­son ex­per­i­enced in wel­fare and leg­al mat­ters to act as wel­fare agent for the child.

² The court shall con­sider ap­point­ing a rep­res­ent­at­ive in par­tic­u­lar if:

a.²²⁴

the par­ents sub­mit dif­fer­ent ap­plic­a­tions re­gard­ing:

1.

al­loc­a­tion of par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity,

2.

al­loc­a­tion of res­id­ence,

3.

im­port­ant ques­tions con­cern­ing their per­son­al re­la­tions with the child,

4.

shar­ing re­spons­ib­il­it­ies for care,

5.

main­ten­ance pay­ments;

b.²²⁵

the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity or one of the par­ents so re­quests;

c.

based on hear­ing with the par­ents or the child or based on oth­er reas­ons, the court:²²⁶

1.²²⁷

has ser­i­ous doubts about the par­ents' joint ap­plic­a­tions re­lat­ing to the is­sues lis­ted un­der let­ter a, or

2.

is con­sid­er­ing or­der­ing meas­ures for the pro­tec­tion of the child.

³ If the child with the ca­pa­city to con­sent so re­quests, a rep­res­ent­at­ive must be ap­poin­ted. The child may chal­lenge the re­jec­tion of his or her re­quest by fil­ing an ob­jec­tion.