Hewitt v. Hewitt

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• holding unmarried cohabitant’s claim to property accumulated during cohabitation violated Illinois’s public policy disfavoring property rights for knowingly unmarried cohabitants
• refusing to grant to a cohabitant one-half of the assets acquired during the cohabitation, reasoning that enforcing the contracts would grant a legal status to cohabitation
• expresses public policy disfavoring grant of mutually enforceable property rights to knowingly unmarried cohabitants
• the recognition of mutual property rights between unmarried cohabitants would violate the policy of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (750 ILCS 5/1-1 et seq. (West 2014

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