Legal Opinion
Bustamante v. Bustamante
Utah Supreme Court
Decided March 11, 1982No. 17305PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Justice:
Plaintiff, Rosa Bustamante, a nonimmi-grant alien, brought this divorce action which was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiff was not a resident of the State of Utah as required by Utah Code Ann., 1953, § 30-3-1. On appeal we must decide whether an alien, present in this jurisdiction under a temporary nonimmigrant visa, is precluded as a matter of law from fulfill*41ing the residency requirements of our divorce statute, § 30-3-1.
Plaintiff married defendant in 1947 in El Salvador, the country of their citizenship. The plaintiff arrived in Utah August 19, 1979, on a…
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