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  • Unmarried Couple Denied Right to Move In

    02/23/2006 1:53:52 PM PST · by Quick1 · 273 replies · 4,341+ views
    WWTI (ABC) ^ | 2/23/2006 | United Press International
    A Missouri couple say they were denied an occupancy permit for their new home because they're not married. Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving have been together for 13 years and have three children, ages 8, 10 and 15, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The couple are appealing the occupancy permit denial from the Black Jack, Mo., board of adjustment, which requires people living together to have blood, marriage or adoption ties. Loving is not the father of Shelltrack's oldest child. I was basically told, you can have one child living in your house if you're not married, but more than...
  • Despite 70-Year Romance, Palimony Is Denied for Lack of Cohabitation

    02/17/2006 10:38:33 PM PST · by chet_in_ny · 11 replies · 790+ views
    New Jersey Law Journal via Yahoo News ^ | 2/17/06 | Michael Booth
    In the 1978 movie "Same Time, Next Year," a man and a woman meet by chance at a romantic inn, end up in bed together and, though each is married, repeat the rendezvous each year. The film's promo line ran, "They couldn't have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other." But if palimony were at issue, neither of the trysters could have collected, at least not in New Jersey. On Feb. 6, a state appeals court ruled that without cohabitation, an extramarital romantic relationship -- even one that spanned 70 years -- cannot be a basis for...