Key legal question
Whether adoption by a mother's concubine can preserve the existing maternal filiation under Swiss adoption law.
Extracted holding
No. The Civil Code does not allow a concubine to be treated like a spouse for purposes of stepchild adoption; the adoption is a single-parent adoption and extinguishes prior filiation except for the spouse exception.
Extracted reasoning
The wording, system, history and purpose of Arts. 264a and 267 CC exclude adoption by concubines and exclude maintaining the prior maternal link. There is no true gap to be filled by analogy.