The Swiss Federal Jurisprudence on Shared Physical Custody Judges’ “voices” in federal court decisions

Posted byManish Shah
  • Name: The Swiss Federal Jurisprudence on Shared Physical Custody Judges’ “voices” in federal court decisions
  • Project leader: Laura Bernardi
  • Hosting institution: LIVES-UNIL
  • Funding: SNSF
  • Duration: 5-9.2023
  • Short description: The research project studies the decisions by federal judges to instore shared physical custody (SPC) regimes, which are guided by the child’s wellbeing. It analyses the judges’ discretionary power with respect to eight guiding criteria1 towards the latter enumerated in Swiss federal jurisprudence, and gauges to what extent their interpretations are corroborated by social science research.
  • Contact person: laura.bernardi@unil.ch