Key legal question
Whether the refusal to order a child psychiatric expert report violated the duty to investigate under Art. 145 ZGB.
Extracted holding
No. The court held that a child expert report is not mandatory in every case; the factual record was sufficiently clarified through existing reports and psychiatric assessments.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 145 ZGB leaves the need for expert evidence to the court’s discretion. Since the record already contained relevant professional reports and the child was found to be healthy and unremarkable, an additional child psychiatric report was unlikely to add decisive insight.