A guy risks having to pay alimony if he gets divorced. So some guys refuse to marry their girlfriends. So the courts invent the concept of palimony, forcing the guy to pay alimony to his former live-in girlfriend. Now the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the two people don’t even need to live together for the courts to force the guy to pay palimony. What’s next, court-ordered payments when a guy has a one-night-stand? (maybe I should delete that; some lawyer might try to persuade a judge to extend this palimony concept even further).
From Palimony ruling sets precedent in Jersey (Star-Ledger, 6/18/08):
In a decision described as the first of its type in the nation, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a couple does not have to live together in order for one partner to sue the other for palimony after a breakup.
I’ve given up on the legislatures ever reining in these judges, especially in judicial hell-holes such as New Jersey. But maybe tarring and feathering some of these judges will make a comeback.
If you’re a guy and you have any money at all, or even hope to have any money at all, you should move out of these hellholes and go to states where the courts won’t rape you (Texas).
Here is my previous blog entry on this case:
http://unfilteredminds.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/palimony-for-g…even-live-withpalimony-for-girlfriends-a-guy-didnt-even-live-with
