What are the major cases that deal with cohabitant disputes?
There are three seminal cases that have been decided since 1979 that have carved out unmarried cohabitants rights. In the three landmark cases of Kozlowski v. Kozlowski, 80 N.J. 378 (1979); Crowe v. DeGioia, 90 N.J. 126 (1982); and In re Roccamonte, 174 N.J. 381 (2002), the New Jersey Supreme Court has created contractual remedies for some types of cohabitant family-type disputes. More specifically, these cases involve disputes that arise after one member of a couple breaks a promise to support or provide for the other member in some way. As a result of these cases, the following principles are now well settled law in New Jersey: (a) agreements between unmarried cohabitants that are not “explicitly and inseparably founded on sexual services” are enforceable; (b) New Jersey public policy does not condemn unmarried cohabitant relationships as “meretricious;” (c) married cohabitants are entitled to seek relief from the court, and this includes temporary support from their former partner;
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