Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the Federal Court had jurisdiction over the dispute about the binding force of a waiver of parental authority.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No federal jurisdiction existed, because the question was governed exclusively by cantonal family law, not by federal law.
Extrahierte Begründung
The decisive question was whether a waiver of the exercise of parental authority could bind the holder. This concerns the concept and scope of parental authority and thus family law. Under Art. 64 BV, the organization of family law, apart from marriage law, belongs to the cantons; federal law neither regulated nor could regulate the matter here.