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Term Definition Residency Requirement - the length of time a person must live in a state before becoming eligible to file for divorce there.
Application in Divorce Residency requirements vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but are usually a minimum of six weeks to as long as a year.

If one or the other spouse is stationed.

At one time, Nevada became a divorce Mecca because it had the shortest residency requirement -- six weeks.

Alaska, South Dakota and Washington have no specific residency requirement.