legal residence
Noun: 1. Domicile; Permanent Home: In law, the place a person considers their fixed, permanent, and principal home. It is the location to which they intend to return whenever absent. A person can have only one legal residence (domicile) at a time for legal purposes, such as taxation, voting, and jurisdiction.
The term "legal residence" is used in formal, legal, and administrative contexts to establish a person's official home for matters like voting rights, tax obligations, jury duty, and eligibility for certain benefits or in-state tuition. - It is distinct from a temporary residence or a place where one merely lives. - Establishing a legal residence often requires both physical presence and the intent to make that place one's permanent home.
- Noun:
- To register to vote, you must provide proof of your legal residence in this county.
- His legal residence remained in Florida, even though he spent summers in New York.
- The court determined the defendant's legal residence for the purpose of filing the lawsuit.
- "Establish legal residence": To take the formal steps to make a new location one's official domicile.
- She needed to get a driver's license and register to vote to establish legal residence in the new state.
- "Change of legal residence": The formal process of moving one's domicile from one jurisdiction to another.
- Filing a change of address with the postal service is not sufficient for a change of legal residence.
- Domicile (noun): A formal synonym for "legal residence," often used in legal documents.
- The will was probated in the state of her domicile.
- Resident (noun): A person who lives in a particular place. A "legal resident" is one whose legal residence is established there.
- He became a legal resident of California after living there for six months with the intent to stay.
- Domicile: Permanent legal home.
- Permanent home: Primary and intended long-term dwelling.
- Principal establishment: Another term emphasizing it is the main, not secondary, home.
- Place of abode: A more general term for where one lives, which may or may not be one's legal residence.
- (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time
- what's his legal residence?