Domicile for jurisdiction purposes requires which combination?

• A. Residence alone.
• B. Intent to make the state permanent home.
• C. Residence and subjective intent to make the state their permanent home.
• D. Only the state's legal status.

Answer: (C)

Domicile for jurisdiction purposes comes from having a fixed, permanent home in a place, shown by both physical presence and the genuine intent to make that place your permanent home. In other words, you must actually reside there and also intend to treat it as your home for the long term. If you only stay there but don’t intend to make it your permanent home, you aren’t domiciled there; if you intend to stay forever but don’t actually reside there, you also lack domicile. The combination of residence and subjective intent to stay permanently is what establishes domicile. For example, moving to a state and living there with the intent to remain indefinitely makes you domiciled there; merely touring or planning to stay short-term does not.