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Palimony for a mistress?

By Glen Ashman

N.J. High Court Hears Pitch for Palimony Sans Cohabitation
New Jersey Law Journal

For the nearly three decades that New Jersey has recognized a cause of action for palimony, cohabitation has been the litmus test. No degree of love, devotion, mutual assurance or sacrifice has been found sufficient without it. But what if the couple is intimate for two decades but can't cohabit because one party stays married to someone else? Put more bluntly, is there equitable power to award palimony to a mistress? The lower courts have said no, putting the issue before the state Supreme Court.
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Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).