Lefkovitz v. Lefkovitz’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “"Locating the marital domicile for divorce jurisdiction purposes once depended on the merits of the case, because a husband departing to another state took with him the `domicile of matrimony' and that of his wife only if he left faultlessly. Haddock v. Haddock, 201 U.S. 562, 571-72 , 26 S.Ct. 525, 528 , 50 L.Ed. 867, 870 (1906). The Supreme Court's first decision in Williams v. North Carolina, 317 U.S. 287 , 63 S.Ct. 207 , 87 L.Ed. 279 (1942), was thought to have put an end to the difficulty of that rule by holding that courts at the domicile of either partner may divorce them. But the concept of a marital domicile — in the simpler sense of the last homeplace the marriage partners shared — has found renewed usefulness to legislatures reaching to claim for their courts personal jurisdiction, incident to the termination of marriage, to exact alimony and other financial adjustments from the absent spouse. Thus, it has repeatedly been held, most recently in Judge Owen's scholarly opinion for the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, that due process standards permit a state to assert personal jurisdiction over a departed husband to enforce his obligation to support a stay-behind spouse long domiciled at the forum. Pinebrook v. Pinebrook, 329 So.2d 343 (Fla.App. 4th 1976), and cases cited at 348. To affirm the jurisdictional interests of that state `seems so sensible,' wrote one commentator on the murky doctrines of domicile, `that it should be obvious to any one who had nev”

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   e.g. 346 So. 2d 994 - Storer v. Storer