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domicile

n. the place where a person has his/her permanent principal home to which he/she returns or intends to return. This becomes significant in determining in what state a probate of a dead person's estate is filed, what state can assess income or inheritance taxes, where a party can begin divorce proceedings, or whether there is "diversity of citizenship" between two parties which may give federal courts jurisdiction over a lawsuit. Where a person has several "residences" it may be a matter of proof as to which is the state of domicile. A business has its domicile in the state where its headquarters is located.

domicile

the country that a person treats as his permanent home and to which he has the closest legal attachment. A person cannot be without a domicile and cannot have more than one domicile at any one time; he acquires a domicile of origin at birth (normally, if his father is alive, his father's; if his father is not alive, his mother's). He retains this domicile until he acquires a domicile of choice (by making a home in a country with the intention that it should be a permanent base). Domicile is distinct from nationality; it is also distinct from ‘ordinary residence’ in that the latter may be acquired without any intention to reside there permanently.
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Practitioners who are interested in providing a domiciliary service can avail themselves of recent guidance provided by the Optical Confederation's Domiciliary Eyecare Committee 'Providing domiciliary eyecare services--Guidance for the profession' which is available on the Optical Confederation's website.
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Section 1332(a)(2) if she possesses dual citizenship; (2) whether the District Court committed clear error when it found that Plaintiff was not a domiciliary of Florida for purposes of Section 1332(a)(1).
Third Circuit holds that, for federal subject matter jurisdiction to exist, Plaintiff with dual U.S. and foreign citizenship (1) may not rely upon her foreign nationality while living abroad as basis for alienage jurisdiction and (2) cannot rely on diversity clause, since Plaintiff was unable to show that she is domiciled in U.S. state diverse from that of all Defendants
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