A state appeals court in New Jersey has ruled that, without cohabitation, an extramarital romantic relationship -- even one that spanned 70 years -- cannot be a basis for palimony support. Jeanette Levine, now 85, sued her longtime lover, Philip Konvitz, in 2004 after Konvitz, then 91, began to slip into dementia and turned over his finances to his son and to a friend. He died that year. Levine's lawyer plans to appeal.
February 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
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.
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