Reply #11: Florida is Bizarroland.

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http://www.njfamilylawblog.com/blog/2009/02/cohabitation-with-cellmate-led-to-termination-of-alimony.html

In a bizarre case from Florida, the 4th District Court of Appeal, Florida’s equivalent of the New Jersey Appellate Division, in a December 2008 decision in Craissati v Craissati decided to terminate alimony based on the ex-wife living in a jail cell with another person for more than three months. The court held that this met the definition of cohabitation in the parties’ divorce agreement under which alimony could be terminated.

Perhaps only in Florida could the court interpret the term “living with another person” to mean sharing a cell with another inmate. Under the flawed legal analysis of this opinion, merely sharing a room in a hospital would constitute cohabitation that would justify termination of alimony. Sharing a jail cell is just an unfortunate consequence of being incarcerated.