{"id":3608,"date":"2009-11-02T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:49:44","slug":"rehinking-palimony-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/02\/rehinking-palimony-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking &#8220;palimony&#8221; laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3626\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/bride-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"bride\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/bride-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/bride.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>The focus on the Obama&#8217;s marriage stemming from the <em>New York Times<\/em> Sunday Magazine <a title=\"cover story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/01\/magazine\/01Obama-t.html?ref=magazine\" target=\"_blank\">cover story <\/a>is sparking discussion of the role of government in promoting marriage.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Linda McClain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/mcclain_l.html\" target=\"_blank\">Linda McClain<\/a>,\u00a0 blogging in <a title=\"Concurring Opinions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.concurringopinions.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/the-state-ofand-nonmarital-unions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Concurring Opinions<\/a>, says it was the passing of <a title=\"Michelle Triola Marvin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5igufWudh7QdAnP7IQoCxk1yGvyAAD9BLR0KG2\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Triola Marvin<\/a>, famous for her 1970&#8217;s &#8220;palimony&#8221; suit against actor Lee Marvin, that should provoke a discussion of the governonment&#8217;s role in nonmarital unions.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Now that &#8216;palimony&#8217; is in its fourth decade, perhaps it is time to rethink the state of nonmarital unions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda McClain, 617-358-4635, <a href=\"mailto:lmcclain@bu.edu\">lmcclain@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The focus on the Obama&#8217;s marriage stemming from the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story is sparking discussion of the role of government in promoting marriage.\u00a0 Law Professor Linda McClain,\u00a0 blogging in Concurring Opinions, says it was the passing of Michelle Triola Marvin, famous for her 1970&#8217;s &#8220;palimony&#8221; suit against actor Lee Marvin, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491,1],"tags":[1947,335,75,1948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}