Key legal question
Whether the cantonal decision confirming ratification of urgent visitation-suspension orders was a last cantonal-instance decision open to federal appeal.
Extracted holding
No. The urgent child-protection orders were provisional in nature and could still be modified by the divorce judge, so the cantonal decision was not a final cantonal-instance decision.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 315a para. 3 ch. 2 CC, the child protection authority may only intervene urgently when the judge cannot act in time. Such decisions are comparable to superprovisional measures and remain subject to later modification by the judge already seized of the case. Because the divorce judge had in fact later altered the visitation regime, the cantonal confirmation did not exhaust cantonal remedies.