From Davis v. Davis, decided yesterday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion for the court by Justice Leslie King: John and Sandra Davis, a then-married couple, had two children in the 1980s ...

Moving to the south after a long career in the north has required some adjustment to regional variation in divorce law. For the most part there is little difference between the divorce law of New ...

North Carolina is one of only six states that still allows a spouse to sue a third party for interfering in their marriage, a practice that originated in English common law and has led to several ...

While the arcane tort of alienation of affection only remains a viable cause of action in seven states, undercover lovers who meet in one of those states -- or participate in romantic interstate ...

Brennay Kennard was ordered to pay $1.75 million in damages to her husband's ex-wife, plaintiff Akira Montague Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty (2) A TikToker's North ...

In most states, the biggest risk for hanky-panky with someone’s spouse is a sock on the jaw and society’s disapproving eye. But North Carolina, along with five other states nationwide, still has laws ...

This used to be possible under the old "alienation of affections" tort, but all but a handful of states have abolished it, and the tortious inducement of breach of contract tort can't fill that gap.

Utahns may soon no longer be able to sue third parties for being responsible for damaging their marriages. That’s if the state Legislature votes to abolish the right to file civil claims for what ...

About 200 people a year file Alienation of Affection lawsuits in North Carolina against the man or woman their spouse is having an affair with. Only seven states still have the law, and few of these ...

File photo of Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland — speaker of the North Carolina House — in his office at the NCGA. An alienation of affection lawsuit filed this week against Rep. Tim Moore — North ...