Kosovan Adoption Decree Refused Recognition Due to Violation of Swiss Public Policy

The appellate court dismissed the challenge to a lower authority's refusal to recognize a foreign adoption decree involving Kosovan nationals, one of whom was also a Swiss citizen, on the grounds that the decree violated Swiss "ordre public" according to Articles 25 lit. c and 27 Abs. 1 IPRG. The court reasoned that recognition was inappropriate because the adoptive parent was only ten years older than the adopted child, failing the Swiss minimum age difference requirement of more than five years, and because the adoption did not serve the child's best interests, given the child's advanced age (nearly 17.5 at the time of decision), his significant school absences and social issues in his home country, and the questionable benefit of integrating him into a new family and culture so close to his legal majority.