“For a party to file a petition for dissolution of marriage, one of the parties must have been a continuous resident of California for six months, and a resident for three months of the county in which the petition has been filed. [Fam. Code, § 2320] The term “residence” as used in the Family Code is synonymous with the term “domicile,” the latter term meaning ‘both the act of residence and an intention to remain.’ [In re Marriage of Thornton, 135 Cal. App. 3d 500, 185 Cal. Rptr. 388 (5th Dist. 1982)] Domicile is “the one location with which for legal purposes a person is considered to have the most settled and permanent connection, the place where he intends to remain and to which, whenever he is absent he has the intention of returning.” Residence “connotes any factual place of abode of some permanency, more than a mere temporary sojourn.” While a person may have more than one residence, a person may have only one domicile. [In re Marriage of Thornton, 135 Cal. App. 3d 500, 185 Cal. Rptr. 388 (5th Dist. 1982)]”
[California Civil Practice Family Law Litigation [certain citations omitted]]
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