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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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