Estate Administration Grounds Under Federal Law vs. Cantonal Provisions

The court overturned the lower authority's order for an official estate administration because the grounds cited, which involved a potential challenge to a specific bequest within a holographic will where only statutory heirs remained, did not align with the grounds exhaustively stipulated in federal law (Art. 554 $\text{ZGB}$). The court reasoned that federal law exclusively governs the permissible reasons for appointing an estate administrator, and cantonal provisions cannot create additional grounds, such as those related to protecting a ward's inheritance rights or facilitating the inventory process, unless those grounds explicitly fall under the federal statutory exceptions, which was not the case here since the will only involved statutory heirs or bequests that did not require a provisional transfer of possession under the relevant articles.