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Palimony for a mistress?
N.J. High Court Hears Pitch for Palimony Sans CohabitationNew Jersey Law JournalFor the nearly three decades that New Jersey has recognized a cause of action for palimony, cohabitation has been the litmus test...

Palimony without cohabitation?
Through the rise of palimony law, courts in New Jersey have laid out a bright line against its being awarded in cases where a couple did not live together...

Proving Your Claim For Palimony
Palimony is a claim for support between unmarried persons first recognized in California in 1976 in the case of Marvin v...

NJ: ?When Palimony?s at Stake, Three?s a Crowd?
Michael Booth reports in the NJ Law Journal: If any practical legal principle can be extracted from the gnarled facts of Bayne v...

Case Law Development: Damages in Palimony Actions
The New Jersey Court of Appeals details a "classic palimony" case this week -- a thirty-year relationship between Rosemary Connell and Edward Diehl...

NJ Supreme Court: Cohabitation not needed to get palimony
"Two people don't have to live together for one to be eligible for palimony when the relationship ends, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday...