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palimony

[ US /ˈpæɫɪˌmoʊni/ ]
NOUN
  1. support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends

How To Use palimony In A Sentence

  • If it is not a palimony claim, it is clearly an attempt to enforce a contract, the consideration for which is wifely services being rendered on the part of a mistress.
  • Straight couples who cohabit only rarely get palimony judgments or court-ordered child support.
  • A long-term girlfriend lost a £3m palimony suit against him when their romance ended after almost two decades in 1993.
  • A partner in a Boston law firm, he initially offered to pay him $72,000 palimony for 10 years, list him as the beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy, and split equally the proceeds from selling their house.
  • She has countersued with a palimony suit, claiming Reynolds requested she ‘quit her job and move from Florida to California’ to live with him as his ‘companion and homemaker’.
  • At that point, the mother hired a palimony lawyer, the judge ordered DNA tests, and the results turned out to be negative.
  • The way politically correct American divorce and palimony laws attack men, I wonder why ANY American male gets married or risks fatherhood.
  • A lawyer calls it ‘a palimony case without the sex.’
  • What with pre-nuptial arrangements, palimony, child custody, we have become accustomed to the short-lived, high octane relationships on which glossy magazines feed.
  • The previous holder of those titles had sued him in 1982 for palimony; the action was dismissed two years later.
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