Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Sum­mary pro­ced­ure ap­plies in par­tic­u­lar in the case of:

a.

de­cisions un­der the Hag­ue Con­ven­tion of 25 Oc­to­ber 1980²³³ on the Civil As­pects of In­ter­na­tion­al Child Ab­duc­tion and un­der the European Con­ven­tion of 20 May 1980²³⁴ on Re­cog­ni­tion and En­force­ment of De­cisions con­cern­ing Cus­tody of Chil­dren and on Res­tor­a­tion of Cus­tody of Chil­dren;

b.

the pay­ment of a spe­cial fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tion to cov­er un­fore­seen ex­traordin­ary needs of the child (Art. 286 para. 3 CC²³⁵);

c.

no­tice to debt­ors and the pro­vi­sion of se­cur­ity for child sup­port out­side pro­ceed­ings on the par­ents' main­ten­ance ob­lig­a­tions (Art. 291 and 292 CC).

² The pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 Decem­ber 2007²³⁶ on In­ter­na­tion­al Child Ab­duc­tion and the Hag­ue Con­ven­tions on the Pro­tec­tion of Chil­dren and Adults are re­served.