210 ZGBCC

CH

Art. 39 Swiss Civil Code (CC)

CC; Title One: Natural Persons; Chapter Two: Registration of Civil Status; A. Registers; I. In general

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Art. 39 CC

Civil status is recorded in an electronic register (civil register).

Civil status includes in particular: 1. a person’s particulars, such as those relating to birth, marriage, registered civil partnership and death; 2. a person’s status under the law of persons and family law, such as majority, parentage, marriage or registered civil partnership; 3. names; 4. cantonal and communal citizenship; 5. nationality.

← Art. 38 CC Swiss Civil Code (CC) Art. 40 CC →

Court Decisions Applying This Provision (8)

ZKBES.2024.25 · so (§ 39 Abs. 4 Gebäudeversicherungsgesetz i.V.m. § 283 Abs. 1 lit. c EG ZGB)

Insurance Provider Debt Collection vs. Co-Owner Regarding Property Lien

This provision establishes the legal mortgage right against which definitive legal opening was granted in order No. 2.

FO.2015.14 · sg (Art. 39 Abs. 2 Ziff. 2 ZGB)

Paternity Acknowledgment Contestability in Divorce Modification Proceedings

Cited as background legal context regarding the establishment of paternity by recognition.

A/1178/2015 · ge (Art. 39 al. 2 ch. 2 CC)

Insured Parent v. Child Benefits Custody Dispute

Cited regarding the content of civil status registers, not in the dispositive.

PE.2012.0111 · vd (Art. 39 ss CC)

Residence Permit Renewal Refusal Over Invalidated Bigamous Marriage

Cited in the reasoning regarding the formal validity of the marriage inscription in the civil status register, which was central to the decision.

11.2003.112 · ti (art. 39 CC)

Appeal Regarding Full Interdiction for Elderly Individual with Senile Dementia

Cited in the reasoning (Considering 7, referring to Art. 392 CC) regarding the least restrictive measure (curatela), which the court considered insufficient compared to interdiction.

Verwaltung ARGVP 2001 1380 · ar (Art. 39 EG zum ZGB)

Superprovisional Custody Removal Upheld Despite Procedural Claims

Cited in the context of arguing that while the committee (Ausschuss) can issue urgent measures, the main authority retains ultimate competence.

VPB 90-074 (Art. 39 Schlusstitel ZGB)

Federal Compensation for Official Land Surveying Reform

This article assigns the final decision-making competence for cost allocation in this context to the Federal Assembly, which is directly relevant to the parliamentary decision on the proposed federal resolution.

VPB N--19-26-mai-1987 (Art. 39 al. 2 CC)

Ordinance on Civil Status Forms and Registers

Cited as the legal basis for the ordinance.