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A residence may be a house.

A Residence Order is made under the Children Act 1989 to decide where a child will live and with whom: see residence in English law.

Habitual residence in the Conflict of laws is the standard civil law connecting factor to select the lex causae and it also operates as a standard test in other international conventions, e.g. to determine the status of refugees, which courts should deal with child abduction cases, etc.

 


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