Which law may govern a cross-border family succession, matrimonial property and divorce, and whether NATIONALITY opens an election. From nationalities held, habitual residence, asset situs and marital status, returns the default applicable law (EU Succession Reg 650/2012 Art 21; Swiss PILA last domicile), the instruments in scope (650/2012 Art 22; Matrimonial Property Reg 2016/1103 Art 22, 18 states; Rome III Art 5, 17 states; Swiss professio juris Arts 90-91), the elections available, hard TIMING rules (2016/1103 and Rome III need the nationality at the time of the agreement; Swiss professio juris is VOID if Swiss nationality is later acquired), situs overrides (e.g. French Code civil art. 913), and the trade-off: a common-law election swaps a FIXED reserved share for a DISCRETIONARY family claim. Returns no-useful-election where nationality opens nothing. Every election needs a properly executed declaration. INFORMATION ONLY, NOT LEGAL OR TAX ADVICE. Pass ISO alpha-2 codes only, never personal data.