Questione giuridica chiave
Whether parental authority could be granted jointly after divorce absent a joint parental request
Decisione estratta
No. Under the then-applicable Civil Code, joint parental authority after divorce was exceptional and required a joint request; it could not be imposed against one parent's will.
Motivazione estratta
The statutory wording of Arts. 133 and 298a CC was clear. The Federal Tribunal followed its settled case law that the default is assignment to one parent, with joint authority only as an exception and not against opposition.