Eliminating or Reducing Alimony Payments Due to Cohabitation

Cohabitation is legally defined as a “Mutually supportive, intimate personal relationship in which the couple has undertaken duties and privileges which are commonly associated with marriage/civil union but does not necessarily maintain a single household.”

The courts consider seven factors when determining to eliminate alimony in a cohabitation situation.

1. Intertwined finances such as joint bank accounts and other joint holdings or liabilities.
2. Sharing or joint responsibility for living expenses.
3. Recognition of the relationship in the couple’s social and family circle.
4. Living together, frequency of contact, duration of the relationship, and other indicia of a “mutually supportive intimate relationship.”
5. Sharing household chores.
6. Whether the recipient of alimony has received a promise of support from another person (i.e. palimony).
7. All other relevant evidence.

NOTE: The couple does not have live together full-time, to be considered in a cohabitating relationship.

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