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    Changing Domicile: How Mental Capacity Factors In

                Domicile is a relatively straight forward legal concept that combines the place where a person permanently resides with where he intends to remain.  However, what happens when a person who has been adjudicated incompetent desires to permanently move. Can he possess the requisite intent to change his domicile in legal terms?               The Georgia Court of Appeals recently took up this question in Estate of Milton Theophilus Pond, II.  In the case, a probate court granted Milton Pond guardianship of his son, M.P., who was an adult man with autism.  Since M.P.’s childhood, he lived with his mother,…