It was love at first sight: you watched them enter the room, heard their adorable laugh, chatted with them all night, and thought to yourself: "Someday, I'm going to leave this person and want to split their assets 50-50…" 

Rob teaches Ray about "palimony" and talks through two landmark cases that catapulted the term into the zeitgeist; the history of common law marriage; why Ray has now named himself Marvin M. McMarvin Jr.; palimony's influence in and importance to the gay community; and how this niche legal concept developed into a lasting judicial philosophy for unmarried partners. 

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TEAM

Ray Hebel

Robert W. Schneider

Mark Schroeder

Billy Recce

Daniel Schwartzberg

Gabe Crawford

Natalie DeSavia

ARTICLESEPISODE CLIPS

Lee Marvin Interview

A&E Divorce Wars: Lee Marvin

SNL Weekend Update: Jane, You Ignorant Slut

Liberace on Gay Rumors

Liberace Interview with Oprah

Liberace Plays "I'll Be Seeing You"

ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS

"Happy Bee" and "Sing Along with Jim"

• Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

• Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro

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