Legal Opinion
Morone v. Morone
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 6, 1980PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Meyer, J.
Presented by this appeal are the questions whether a contract as to earnings and assets may be implied in fact from the relationship of an unmarried couple living together and whether an express contract of such a couple on those subjects is enforceable. Finding an implied contract such as was recognized in Marvin v Marvin (18 Cal 3d 660) to be conceptually so amorphous as practically to defy equitable enforcement, and inconsistent with the legislative policy enunciated in 1933 when common-law marriages were abolished in New York, we decline to follow the Marvin…
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