A New Jersey judge has rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s six-year-old law that requires palimony agreements to be put into writing and reviewed by independent counsel.
Bergen County Superior Court Judge Terry Bottinelli, in a ruling released on July 22 in Lee v. Kim, said the palimony statute—which was enacted in 2010 as an amendment to the Statute of Frauds—did not violate the constitutional rights of a woman, Sook Hee Lee, who had a two-year relationship with the defendant, Dr. Jonathan Kim.
