Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ The es­tate of a per­son who had their last dom­i­cile abroad is gov­erned by the law re­ferred to by the private in­ter­na­tion­al law rules of the state of dom­i­cile.

² To the ex­tent that Swiss ju­di­cial or ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies have jur­is­dic­tion pur­su­ant to Art­icle 87, the es­tate of a Swiss de­ceased who had their last dom­i­cile abroad is gov­erned by Swiss law, un­less the de­ceased ex­pressly provided by will or con­tract of suc­ces­sion for the ap­plic­a­tion of the law of their last dom­i­cile.