In Re Estate of Eriksen

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• imposing a constructive trust where underlying agreement was to join in the purchase of a home and parties had reasons not to put agreement in writing
• fraud or other wrongdoing need not be present in order to impose a constructive trust
• unique circumstances, including one cohabitor still being legally married to another and receiving AFDC payments, necessitated agreement to place title to purchased property in other cohabitor’s name
• where cohabiting parties shared equally all costs and expenses in connection with a home purchase, including purchasing a term life insurance policy to protect the mortgage holder, surviving cohabitor properly awarded a one-half interest in the house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).