"Domicile" will mean a person's true, fixed and permanent home, to which a person intends to return. Domicile refers to the place you call home permanently.Your domicile is important for legal purposes such as paying taxes, voting, and claiming benefits. The legal residence of a deceased service person shall be prima facie in the county where he or she made his or her abode. "State of legal residence" (SLR) and "domicile" mean the same thing, namely your true, fixed, and permanent abode. The Taxpayer Relief Act provides for property tax reduction allocations to be distributed to school districts through a "homestead or farmstead exclusion." A Certificate of Residence(PDF, 13KB) form is required as part of recording all deeds transferring property ownership. Your domicile is your fixed and permanent home to which you always have the intention of returning whenever absent, even though you may live elsewhere. An ancillary proceeding in Pennsylvania is secondary to a primary estate proceeding commenced in the decedent's state of domicile. DOMICILE - the place where a person lives and has a permanent home and to which the person has the intention of returning whenever absent.