a home and its essentials. Orr, supra, 440 U.S. at 279-280, 99 S.Ct. at 1112, 59 L.Ed.2d at 319. Although our focus is not on a statute, but a common law rule, the same reasoning that led to the invalidation of an alimony statute in Orr now requires modification of the common law rule to achieve a fairer distribution of the cost of necessaries incurred by either spouse in the course of their marriage. A modern marriage is a partnership, with neither spouse necessarily dependent financially on the other. Many women have shed their traditional dependence on their husbands for active roles as income earners. Lepis v. Lepis, 83 N.J. 139, 156 (1980) (allowing modification of separation agreement because of changed circumstances); Tomarchio v. Township of Greenwich, 75 N.J. 62, 73 (1977) (<HOLDING>); In re Gaulkin, 69 N.J. 185, 193 (1976)
holding that pursuant to statute unemployment benefits must be offset against workers compensation payments holding that a workers compensation statute that requires widowers but not widows to prove dependence in order to recover benefits was unconstitutional holding unenforceable a regulation that would have provided greater workers compensation benefits than permitted by statute holding that the trial courts authority to initiate workers compensation benefits before the final adjudication was not divested by the legislature and was consistent with the stated purpose of the workers compensation act holding workers compensation claimant failed to prove statute requiring jccs approval for payment of attorneys fees was inadequate to achieve legitimate state interest in protecting workers