Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ If the de­ceased was a for­eign cit­izen dom­i­ciled abroad, the Swiss ju­di­cial or ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies at the loc­a­tion have jur­is­dic­tion to deal with those parts of the es­tate that are loc­ated in Switzer­land to the ex­tent that the au­thor­it­ies at the place of dom­i­cile do not deal with them. In or­der to avoid con­flicts of jur­is­dic­tion, the Swiss ju­di­cial or ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies may de­cline jur­is­dic­tion, to the ex­tent that the au­thor­it­ies in a for­eign state of which the de­ceased was a cit­izen or in the state of the de­ceased's last ha­bitu­al res­id­ence deal with the es­tate.⁶⁵

² If there are as­sets loc­ated in dif­fer­ent places, the Swiss au­thor­ity be­fore which the mat­ter was first brought has jur­is­dic­tion.