Matter of Melendez v. O'Neill

How courts have described this case

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• “‘Marital-like’ is simply an attempt by the courts to describe the long-term, committed nature of a CIR”
• cannot create an issue of material fact by filing an affidavit that contradicts a prior statement without explanation
• courts use the CIR doctrine “to resolve the property distribution issues that arise when unmarried people separate after living in a marital-like relationship and acquiring what would have been community property had they been married”
• courts use the CIR doctrine “to resolve the property distribution issues that arise when unmarried people separate after living in a marital-like relationship and acquiring what would have been community property had they been married”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).