Domicile

Question 1

When may a child choose to change their domicile?

Answer 1

(1) Emancipation
(2) Age of majority

Question 2

What is a person’s domicile of residence?

Answer 2

The place where they currently live

Question 3

What is a person’s domicile of residence if they have more than one home?

Answer 3

The home that is the center of her domestic, social, and civil life

Question 4

What is a person’s domicile of origin?

Answer 4

Wherever her parents lived at the time of her birth

Question 5

What is a person’s domicile of choice?

Answer 5

The place a person intends to change their domicile to

Question 6

What is required for a person to change their domicile?

Answer 6

(1) Physical presence in the new state; and
(2) Intent to make the new state their home

Question 7

Whose laws will a court apply to determine domicile?

Answer 7

The forum state (unless it’s the enforcement of a divorce judgment)

Question 8

Whose laws will a court apply to determine domicile when asked to enforce another state’s divorce judgment?

Answer 8

The other state