James Dakuras, Sr. v. Robert Edwards

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that citizenship of a natural person is determined by domicile
• considering when the domicile of a minor or ward may depend upon that of a parent or guardian
• a guardian “should not be allowed to gain a litigating advantage from having changed their ward’s domicile for an improper reason”
• “The responsibility for making the essential life choices of children and wards is vested not in them but in their parents or guardians, and we cannot see why the choice of domicile should not be treated as one of those life choices.”
• “[D]omicile is the place one intends to remain.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).