Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 9/3/1980

Mitchell v. Mitchell

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418 A.2d 1140
1980 Me. LEXIS 646

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noting, for example, that a cohabitant’s benefit from a recipient spouse’s expenditures on heating fuel, which would have a similar cost absent the shared living arrangements, does not show a decreased need for alimony
upholding finding that wife's financial conditions had not changed through cohabitation
“Modification of alimony on the basis of moral judgments of the recipient’s living arrangements would be beyond the scope of the divorce court’s discretion”
\Modification of alimony on the basis of moral judgments of the recipient's living arrangements would be beyond the scope of the divorce court's discretion\
unlike remarriage, unmarried cohabitation not prima facie evidence that alimony should be terminated because cohabitants have no legal obligation to support each other
unlike remarriage, unmarried cohabitation not prima facie evidence that alimony should be terminated because cohabitants have no legal obligation to support each other

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Judges: McKusick, Wer-Nick, Godfrey, Nichols, Roberts

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