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HEWITT v. HEWITT

No. 51264.

77 Ill.2d 49 (1979)

394 N.E.2d 1204

VICTORIA L. HEWITT et al., Appellees, v. ROBERT M. HEWITT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall J. Auerbach, Michael J. Rovell, Joan B. Gottschall, Don R. Sampen, and Robert T. Markowski (Jenner & Block, of Chicago, and Robert I. Auler, of Urbana, of counsel), for appellant.

Burt Greaves, of Greaves, Lerner & Gadau, of Champaign, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case is whether plaintiff Victoria Hewitt, whose complaint alleges she lived with defendant Robert Hewitt from 1960 to 1975 in an unmarried, family-like relationship to which three children have been born, may recover from him "an equal share of the profits and properties accumulated by the parties" during that period.

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