Is it possible to abandon a domicile of choice or origin in favour of a new home?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Scott v Vanston, 2016 SKCA 75 (CanLII):
It is certainly possible to abandon a domicile of choice or origin in favour of a new domicile of choice, but such change involves more than a change in intention and requires some act of abandonment. That requirement to take some tangible step to abandon was identified in Fedeluk v. Fedeluk as relating to the dual prerequisites to adopt a new domicile of choice:
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