93 Wash. App. 913 - Pennington v. Pennington’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 127 Wash. 2d 339 - Connell v. Francisco · 101 Wash. 2d 299 - In Re the Marriage of Lindsey · 36 Wash. App. 693 - Warden v. Warden · 41 Wash. App. 434 - In Re the Marriage of Hilt · 61 Wash. App. 880 - Foster v. Thilges
Most-quoted passages
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“during most of the period that the trial court terms `meretricious,' the parties were not free to marry legally, did not intend to marry, or punctuated their living together with a third party relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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