Custody Transfer Post-Hospitalization: Court vs. Guardianship Authority Jurisdiction

The case concerns the custody allocation of a child following the dissolution of the parents' household, where an initial court ruling granted custody to one parent, followed by the guardianship authority temporarily removing custody and placing the child with the maternal grandmother based on the mother's hospitalization. The appeal court clarified that while the guardianship authority is competent to remove custody from a parent under Article 310(1) ZGB, the court in subsequent proceedings under Article 179 ZGB has the exclusive authority to decide on the transfer of custody between the parents or to a third party, meaning the lower court president erred by directly determining placement with the grandmother without first determining if custody should revert to the appealing father, as the father maintains priority over third-party placement unless grounds for his own custody removal exist.