Palimony – About to be abolished??

Once again Palimony is in the news – The Bill – blogged about below – S2091, requiring palimony agreements to be in writing to be enforceable recently passsed out of comimittee. I don’t know about you all – but I’ve NEVER seen an agreement for palimony in writing. Isn’t the whole point that the relationship was never formalized?????? The bill would overturn D’Devaney v. L’Esperance, (decided June 17, 2008) holding that cohabitation is not required for a finding of palimony, In re Estate of Roccamonte, (174 N.J. 381) (2002) which held that plaimony could be awarded against the estate of the cohabitant’s, and Kozlowski v. Kozlowski, 80 N.J. 378 (1979), which held that a promise of lifetime support by one cohabitant to another in a marital-like relationship would be enforced, if one of the partners was induced to cohabit by the promise.