Albertina Antognini, ‘Nonmarital Contracts’, 73 Stanford Law Review 67 (2021). Millions of Americans are in cohabiting relationships marked by varying degrees of intimacy and dependency. Although at least some of these relationships are functionally similar to marriage, the law has had a limited role in regulating them. Nonmarital partners are ineligible for benefits like family leave, Social Security, favorable tax treatment, and more. Moreover, marital property rules do not apply to them, meaning that economically vulnerable partners may find themselves with nothing at the relationship’s end. In most states, one legal tool available to nonmarital partners is contract … (more)
[Kaiponanea Matsumura, JOTWELL, 27 April]
First posted 2021-04-28 08:00:20
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