Thomas v. LaRosa

NEELY, Chief Justice:

This case presents the following certified question from the Circuit Court of Harrison County:

Are agreements (express or implied) which are made between adult non-marital partners for future support and which are not explicitly and inseparably founded on sexual services enforceable?

Stated another way, we are asked to decide today whether moral standards have changed sufficiently in the last thirty years that a man can now be married to two women at the same time. Our answer is an emphatic “no.”

On 4 August 1989, the appellant, Karen J. Thomas (who in the caption sets out…