Art. 465 Separate trials of cumulated actions

When several claims are combined into one lawsuit, a judge can still decide to separate them and hold different trials for each one. This can happen even if it was perfectly fine to combine the claims in the first place.

The judge can make this decision any time before the trial starts. The judge will order separate trials if doing so would make the case easier to handle, help things move in a clearer order, or simply be the fairer way to handle the situation.

For people involved in a case, this means that even if your claims were joined together with others, they might later get split apart for trial. This gives the judge flexibility to manage the case in whatever way makes the most sense, rather than being locked into one big trial covering everything at once.