Hewitt v. Hewitt

The issue in this case is whether plaintiff Victoria Hewitt, whose complaint alleges she lived with defendant Robert Hewitt from 1960 to 1975 in an unmarried, family-like relationship to which three children have been born, may recover from him “an equal share of the profits and properties accumulated by the parties” during that period.

Plaintiff initially filed a complaint for divorce, but at a hearing on defendant’s motion to dismiss, admitted that no marriage ceremony had taken place and that the parties have never obtained a marriage license. In dismissing that complaint the trial court…