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6 - Commentary on Marvin v. Marvin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2020

By
Aníbal Rosario-Lebrón  and
Kate Sablosky Elengold
Edited by
Rachel Rebouché
Rachel Rebouché
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia
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Summary

“I got the subject of people living together out of the closet and right down at your dinner table. Women and men now talk about it openly. They discuss what they want out of a relationship.”1 Perhaps no other case in family law has been so intertwined with popular culture as Marvin v. Marvin.2 The decision that had as protagonists Hollywood’s star Lee Marvin, performer Michelle Triola Marvin,3 and celebrity lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson, has been, for the past four decades, the subject of popular shows,4 news outlets,5 and songs.6 It introduced a neologism into our legal and lay dictionaries, the concept of palimony (an acronym of pal and alimony).7 But more importantly, Marvin holds a seminal place in family law regarding the rights of nonmarital cohabiting couples.

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Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten , pp. 117 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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