Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ If the de­ceased was a Swiss cit­izen dom­i­ciled abroad, the Swiss ju­di­cial or ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies at the de­ceased’s place of ori­gin have jur­is­dic­tion for the es­tate to the ex­tent that the for­eign au­thor­it­ies do not deal with the es­tate.

² The au­thor­it­ies at the place of ori­gin al­ways have jur­is­dic­tion when a Swiss cit­izen hav­ing their last dom­i­cile abroad sub­mits, in a will or a con­tract of suc­ces­sion, their en­tire es­tate or the por­tion there­of loc­ated in Switzer­land to Swiss jur­is­dic­tion or Swiss law. Art­icle 86 para­graph 2 is re­served.