Moorcroft v. Severance (2018)

Citation: Moorcroft v. Severance (2018)
Parent Document: Moorcroft v. Severance (2018)
Jurisdiction: Vermont (state)
Effective Date: 2018-03-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10026703/moorcroft-v-severance/ ↗

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As to John’s claim that he is entitled to a wind down as the result of the parties’
“domestic partnership”, he cites no legal authority for the court to treat John and Jim’s former
intimate, close relationship as the equivalent of a marriage and declare a property distribution.
Civil unions became legal in Vermont in 2000, followed by legal same sex marriage in 2009.
These provisions, for Jim and John to obtain the privileges and protections of marriage, were
never entered into between the parties. As they chose not to enter such a relationship, with its
rights and privileges to have property ownership equitably decreed in a manner different than
how property is legally held, the court will not undergo that task for them. See Dexter v. Corliss,
2006 WL 4959623, Docket 245-12-03 Oecv (Teachout, J.) (stating unmarried parties are “not
entitled to the equitable division of property that would be available to [them] in a divorce”). As
Judge Morris stated in another case denying such relief:

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