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Legal Residence

The term "legal residence" shall be construed as synonymous with "domicile" and is hereby defined as actual residence, coupled with intention that shall be permanent, or a residence presently fixed with no definite intention of changing it or of returning to a former residence at some future period. Legal residence is to be determined by adobe of person and his or her intention to abandon his or her former domicile and establish a new one. The legal residence of a deceased service person shall be prima facie in the county where he or she made his or her adobe at the time of his or her death.