Palimony's a portmanteau of the words and alimony. The neologism was coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin. Background Despite the quasi-divorce proceeding suggested by the word, "palimony" isn't a legal term and has never been used by the California Supreme Court. The legal term, at least in California,'s "non-marital relationship contract", and because the relationship's non-… (More on Palimony)