Domicile refers to the place you call home permanently. Your domicile is important for legal purposes such as paying taxes, voting, and claiming benefits."Domicile" will mean a person's true, fixed and permanent home, to which a person intends to return. "State of legal residence" (SLR) and "domicile" mean the same thing, namely your true, fixed, and permanent abode. Basically the terms "domicile" and "legal residence" refer to the same place – the state you consider your permanent home. A Certificate of Residence(PDF, 13KB) form is required as part of recording all deeds transferring property ownership. This means the county where the Decedent lived and considered their primary home address before they died.