In modern times, the suits are filed for two reasons: money and revenge.
Juries in North Carolina have handed out awards in excess of
In modern times, the suits are filed for two reasons: money and revenge.Juries in North Carolina have handed out awards in excess of $1 million on multiple occasions.
||In modern times, the suits are filed for two reasons: money and revenge.
Juries in North Carolina have handed out awards in excess of $1 million on multiple occasions.
million on multiple occasions.If any of Woods' professed "sins" took place in an alienation of affection state, look out.
"If he had been dating a married woman, there could be the potential for a lucrative recovery," Rosen says.
"It's a very delicate matter legislatively," Steffey says.
And as long as the law remains on the books, Rosen says, he'll keep busy: "We have an obligation to pursue our clients' rights." There is one way to avoid such suits: Respect marital vows.
"And what this lawsuit did is it turned a fall into a disgrace." "There's a particular cast of tragedy when people are undone, not by accidental misfortune, but by their own character defects." Watch: Are men programmed to cheat?
Most states have abolished alienation of affection lawsuits.
"To allow these suits to go forward," Steffey says, "is destructive to family life." "It's much like dropping a nuclear bomb on a family," Rosen says.
"It really does damage the relationship between spouses.
The new season will begin with an hour-long matchmaking special, followed by the two-hour official season premiere, which will begin to follow the couples as they get to know each other after the I dos. Gregory Okotie is 32 and was raised in Fort Washington, MD in a close-knit single-parent household with an older sister.