87 Ohio App. 3d 601 - Seward v. Mentrup’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2022
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 133 Ohio St. 520 - Hummel v. Hummel · 23 Ohio App. 3d 168 - Lauper v. Harold
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant contends that she is entitled to a legal or equitable division of the property accumulated by the parties' joint efforts during the time they lived together. It is appellant's belief that her relationship with appellee was "more like a marriage," and that consequently, she is entitled to reimbursement for money she contributed toward capital improvements to appellee's residence.... The evidentiary materials clearly indicate that there were no written contracts or agreements governing the parties' [lesbian] relationship ... Based upon Lauper [v. Harold, 23 Ohio App.3d 168 , 492 N.E.2d 472, 474 (1985)], a property division, per se, applies only to marriages. We see no reason to deviate from this position. Accordingly, the trial court had no authority to divide property absent a marriage contract or similar agreement, and the court correctly granted summary judgment to appellee on appellant's breach of contract claim. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is no precedent in Ohio for dividing assets or property based on mere cohabitation without marriage and we think it advisable not to start or follow a trend to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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