· 11/12/1987
Feliciano v. Rosemar Silver Co.
Citations
- 514 N.E.2d 1095
- 401 Mass. 141
- 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1508
How courts have described this case
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- government interest in promoting marriage would be “subverted” by recognition of “a right to recover for loss of consortium by a person who has not accepted the correlative responsibilities of marriage”
- \[T]hat value [of marriage] would be subverted by our recognition of a right to recover for loss of consortium by a person who has not accepted the correlative responsibilities'of marriage.\
- nonmarital partners have no right to sue for loss of consortium
- nonmarital partners have no right to sue for loss of consortium
- where the court refused to grant recovery for loss of consortium where the plaintiffs were not married but lived together; no right to recovery arose because the plaintiffs had not accepted the correlative responsibilities of marriage
- nonmarital partners have no right to sue for loss of consortium
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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor
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