In Re the Marriage of Kimura

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• acknowledging Iowa’s “liberal dissolution marriage law as compared to Japan’s” may have been “one reason” the husband moved to Iowa but concluding that fact was not sufficient to defeat a finding of residency
• equating “residency” to “domicile” for chapter 598 dissolution of marriage action
• “Whether to apply the doctrine of forum non conveniens lies in the sound discretion of the district court.”
• “Residence for the purpose of section 598.[5] has the same meaning as domicile. To have a residence or domicile within the meaning of this section, “one must have a fixed habitation with no intention of” leaving it.”
• discussing “jurisdiction” in the sense of subject matter jurisdiction
• “Once a domicile is established, it continues until a new one is established. A new domicile is established if all of the following things happen: (1) the former domicile is abandoned; (2) there is an 8 actual removal to, and physical presence in the new domicile; and (3

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