Suing third-party invaders in a marriage

[sonobi 3]

Has anyone ever heard of sueing the person that a spouse had an affair with? I think it's called alineation of affection or ill intentions on a married. Wouldn't it be nice if victims could sue the third party responsible for causing unwanted stress on a marriage? Your thoughts?

[Darnell 8,479]

ya, it's possible, for a civil suit.

depends on the attorney's experience and willingness to take it on.

IMO, if it's less than 250K, it's not worth it.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Has anyone ever heard of sueing the person that a spouse had an affair with? I think it's called alineation of affection or ill intentions on a married. Wouldn't it be nice if victims could sue the third party responsible for causing unwanted stress on a marriage? Your thoughts?

I have heard of it... but honestly, I don't think you'd (anyone, not you specifically) stand a good chance of winning, because no-one MAKES someone else not love their partner anymore and if she was able, he was never truly mine to begin with...

I never understood why people blame the mistress. I mean obviously I'd be pretty pissed at her, but my man is the one that's supposed to love ME and only me. If he was so easily swayed by some tart, all I can really do is hate her for being pathetic enough to be involved with a married man. And hate her a lot i would, but it wasn't HER fault our marriage failed or my man strayed. He would have known I was at home waiting for him, he would have known how heartbroken i would be, and yet it didn't matter to him.

Now if it was a friend or family member THEN I would be even more pissed and I would want to hurt her... we could always revert to the stone ages and stone anyone that cheated or anyone that cheated WITH a married man/woman... but then how do you prove they knew? In my opinion I think the only chance to win something like that is if a friend or family member did it and they knew things about you and your relationship and were able to use those things to change his mind, and sway his thinking.

[Ban Hammer 14,365]

Has anyone ever heard of sueing the person that a spouse had an affair with? I think it's called alineation of affection or ill intentions on a married. Wouldn't it be nice if victims could sue the third party responsible for causing unwanted stress on a marriage? Your thoughts?

depends on the state one is in. some states still allow the above, although it's rare.

[DEDixon 39]

i was just watching a case last night on the web and part of it involved suing the mistress.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6451545n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

i'm not sure of your location. sometimes people located outside the US can't watch US based videos.

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like someone said, unless the people involved have lots of money, it isn't worth it from the money point of view. i don't often hear of the rich filing these kinds of suits, however. if you have the money and you just want to cause someone who doesn't have money pain and financial stress, this is one way to do it (again, only if you have money to waste).

careful, sometimes the person you want to sue didn't know the person he/she was dating was involved.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Why not sue the cheating spouse instead?

[trillium13 84]

Why not sue the cheating spouse instead?

[thongd4me 69]

Has anyone ever heard of sueing the person that a spouse had an affair with? I think it's called alineation of affection or ill intentions on a married. Wouldn't it be nice if victims could sue the third party responsible for causing unwanted stress on a marriage? Your thoughts?

Alienation may very well involve a "push" action (offended spouse) as well as a "pull" action (by the other man/woman).

It's very hard to prove against the "other" because it doesn't occur in an emotional vacuum.

If someone runs off with somebody new there's got to be some alienation by the spouse that was run FROM.