palimony

In 1976, the California Supreme Court sent shock waves through the legal profession and through society in general when it ruled that a woman, Michelle Triola, (90) who had lived for six years out of wedlock with actor Lee Marvin (who happened to be married to another woman at the time he began to live with Michelle) could assert a legal claim for "palimony"--ongoing support (like "alimony") after the termination of their nonmarital relationship.

The fact that he was forced into his new shape by a sudden exhaustion suggests an outside power that is coercing him to a shape he would not prefer for the benefit of Palimony. When Pal suggests that the outside force and the animal that dragged Chingaro ashore so that he could be found was Coyote, Chingaro replied, "Hay nada otros" which roughly translates to "There is no other." His comment is offhand, but Chingaro is acknowledging the ever-present influence of Coyote.

Scott says he filed the palimony suit in a fit of anger and quickly regretted it.

qualitatively different from both alimony and palimony, which are

" Why shouldn't we develop a law on the lines of palimony in order to compensate such women who can't claim alimony under our law," Katju said, while hearing the case of a woman who was seeking maintenance from her partner.

I strongly support legislation to streamline divorce, alimony and palimony in Bahrain.

Palimony: Support paid from one person to another even though they were never married.

(After all, he was friends with both Liz and Liza; and there was that gay palimony suit in 1991.) But when it came to memorializing the man who gave us Jeopardy!, most of the mainstream media politely skirted the whole issue in their obits.

Coy about his sexuality over the years (he was even sued unsuccessfully for palimony by one man, whom Griffin countersued), at one point he also had a high-profile relationship with Eva Gabor.

Many obituaries this week had noted, in passing, that Griffin had been sued by men a few years back, one for palimony and the other for sexual harassment, but left it at that.

1989 Sondra Locke filed a palimony suit against Clint Eastwood.

Mencken's Greek-derived name for a stripteaser, love to put on fancy airs; others, like humongous and palimony, are winkingly playful.

Alexandra is planning palimony action against Ellen, which means the right to money from a non-married partner.

In the 1980s, Lee Marvin and the California palimony case came along and, given the number of employees who did not have spouses, yet lived with their palmers as if married, we clarified the policy by requiring that "spouse" be defined as a "stand-up-and-say-'I do!'-type spouse."