Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the cantonal enforcement decision on visitation could be upheld without hearing the 11-year-old child.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. Given the exceptional enforcement context, the long interruption of contact, the child's age, and the centrality of her fears and wishes, the child had to be personally heard.
Extrahierte Begründung
Although enforcement proceedings may not re-examine the merits of the underlying order, the appellate court itself materially intervened by adapting the visitation scheme for child-welfare reasons. In that special situation, Art. 144(2) ZGB and the child-welfare principle required a hearing; the court could not rely only on third-party reports and the mother's failure to appeal years earlier.