Wilbur v. DeLapp

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the unmarried parties who lived together intended that the female cohabitant have a one-half interest in property held in the male partner’s name
• because Oregon does not recognize common-law marriage, nonmarried cohabitants are not subject to marital dissolution statutes
• “Here, defendant held legal title to the house and was solely responsible for the mortgage payments. Legal ownership of the property, however, is not dispositive.”
• where the plaintiff contributed noneconomic and some economic resources to the household, including homemaking and repairs, she was entitled to an equitable share of real property and a retirement account even though they were in the defendant’s name only
• division based on equity at time of trial
• legal title of property is not dispositive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).