Fore v. Toth

The petitioner urges that the Probate Court of Cuyahoga County lacked jurisdiction to award custody, by way of guardianship, of Donald, for the reason that at all times material to this controversy his domicil was Louisiana. To reach this conclusion she advances several “rules” of domicil. Briefly summarized, they are:

1. A married woman takes the domicil of her husband by operation of law.

2. A person’s domicil is not changed while he is in military service, unless he has most clearly and unequivocally shown an intent to change it. Donnie R. Fore, the father, was admittedly domiciled in…