Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ A per­son may sub­mit their es­tate by a will or con­tract of suc­ces­sion to the law of any one of the states of which they are a cit­izen. The per­son con­cerned must have the rel­ev­ant cit­izen­ship either at the time of mak­ing the will or con­tract of suc­ces­sion or at the time of their death. Swiss cit­izens re­main bound by the pro­vi­sions of Swiss law on free­dom of dis­pos­i­tion.

² If a Swiss cit­izen sub­mits their es­tate in whole or in part to Swiss jur­is­dic­tion (Art. 87 para. 2), this shall, provided the per­son con­cerned does not stip­u­late any­thing to the con­trary, also ap­ply as sub­mit­ting the as­sets con­cerned to Swiss law.

³ A par­tial choice of law is only per­mit­ted if as­sets loc­ated in Switzer­land are sub­mit­ted to Swiss law and this is com­bined with, or res­ults in the same as­sets be­ing sub­mit­ted to Swiss jur­is­dic­tion (Art. 87 para. 2).