Abstract:
Articles 38 through 46 of the Louisiana Civil Code on domicile were revised in 2008. These relatively new provisions codify a concept that is ancient but still useful. The concept of domicile traces its roots to Greco-Roman sources. It is based on the idea that every individual has a personal and persistent relationship with a specific location—one’s home. “That is properly the domicile of a person where he has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.”
