Despite the two revisions to child custody and maintenance law, which, according to the parliamentary mandate, pursued the core objective of promoting joint parenthood for separated parents, around 10 percent of all children of separation and divorce in Switzerland still lose contact with a parent – over 90 percent of cases to the father.
While the Federal Supreme Court recognized this sad fact with two courageous leading decisions in the fourth quarter of 2020 and does not seem to tolerate it any longer, the mills of the upstream court and enforcement instances grind slowly and there are hardly any significant changes in the reality of life of the children affected compared to Time before the revision recognizable.
umbrella organization for shared parenthood , GeCoBi , has investigated why this is the case.
The result is the research paper published here