IRELAND, J.
This case raises the first impression question whether a plaintiff in a divorce action who has not complied with the one-year residency requirement of G. L. c. 208, § 5, may, nevertheless, satisfy the alternative jurisdictional requirements of § 5, by asserting domicil after a brief period of residence and claiming that the "cause" for the divorce, namely "an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" under G. L. c. 208, § 1B, occurred in...
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