Comments on: New Jersey high court: palimony without cohabitation OK

By: Shtetl G

Shtetl G — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:59:17 +0000

This post reminded me of the lyrics of an old Charlie Parker/Tiny Grimes tune:

Romance without finance is a nuisance
Baby, you know I need me some gold
Romance without finance just don’t make sense
Mama, mama, please give up that gold
You so great and you so fine
You ain’t got no money you can’t be mine
It ain’t no joke to be stone broke
Baby, you know I’d lie when I say
Romance without finance is a nuisance
Please please baby give me some gold

By: Bob Neal

Bob Neal — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:13:28 +0000

Even worse than heart balm statutes (alienation of affection and criminal conversation) which affect recognized marriages.

Here, every break-up involves some implied contract and a question of fact precluding summary judgment. This should be called the “full employment for family lawyers doctrine.”

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:12:45 +0000

But of course not trivial to those it affects.

By: Ted Frank

Ted Frank — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:58:37 +0000

If I didn’t have eight other planned law review articles in my queue not getting written, and if it weren’t such a trivial issue, I’d write a piece on how the palimony cause-of-action is the back-door resuscitation of the discredited heartbalm statutes of old.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:21:55 +0000

I’ve never understood what “Totality of the facts and circumstances” that lacked a rather specific “I DO” would make one think they were in a relationship similar to marriage.

I guess I just need a brighter line than most to make upp for not being bright myself.