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The End Of Annulment, Kerry Abrams
Family History: Inside And Out, Kerry Abrams
Family History: Inside And Out, Kerry Abrams
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Citizen Spouse, Kerry Abrams
Citizen Spouse, Kerry Abrams
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Marriage and citizenship have a complicated relationship to one another. Marriage is often the primary way in which a person can exercise and demonstrate his or her identity under law, by claiming legal benefits and by performing legal obligations. This Essay examines the history of one particularly salient example of marriage-as-citizenship — the derivative domicile rule — and uses this history to consider how the relationship between marriage and citizenship has changed and developed over time. The derivative domicile rule linked a woman’s domicile, and her state citizenship along with all the rights and obligations it carried, with her husband’s …