Book I: Individuals

A citizen called to a temporary or revocable public office will retain the domicile he had previously, if he has not manifested a contrary intention.

The acceptance of functions conferred for life, will entail the immediate translation of the domicile of the civil servant in the place where he must exercise these functions.

Husband and wife may have a separate domicile without prejudice to the rules relating to community of life. Any notification made to a spouse, even one separated from bed and board, in matters of personal status and capacity, must also be addressed to his or her spouse, on pain of nullity.

The separate residence of the spouses, during divorce or legal separation proceedings, automatically entails a separate domicile.

An unemancipated minor is domiciled with his father and mother. If the father and mother have separate domiciles, he is domiciled with the parent with whom he resides.

Adults under guardianship are domiciled with their guardian.

Adults who habitually serve or work in the homes of others will have the same domicile as the person they serve or work for, when they live with that person in the same house.

Where a deed contains, on the part of the parties or one of them, an election of domicile for the performance of the same deed in a place other than that of the actual domicile, service, requests and proceedings relating to that deed may be made at the agreed domicile, and, subject to the provisions of Article 48 of the Code of Civil Procedure, before the judge of that domicile.