Kinder und Scheidung

Joint custody is to be the rule in divorce cases in future. With this revision of the Civil Code, the Federal Council wants to create the basis for this so that children will continue to have optimal conditions even after the parents have separated. There is no doubt that divorce from parents is a complex process, but this does not make it impossible to involve the children; on the contrary, it makes it all the more necessary. On the part of both the authorities and the parents, however, there is considerable scepticism and uncertainty as to whether and how children can and should be involved in the process of family reorganisation before, during and after the divorce. The last revision of the divorce law in 2000 was intended, among other things, to substantially improve the position of children affected by divorce. The procedural law institute of child hearing was enshrined in law and the.