Her ex-husband sued her fiance for luring her away -- and, yes, one can sue for that under Utah law. In today's Mandel v. Hafermann, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley (N.D. Cal.) dismissed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man or woman scorned may understandably want revenge. And in some states, aggrieved exes can take alleged spouse-stealers to court seeking millions of dollars in damages. Some states, including ...

TAOS — The New Mexico Supreme Court has ended a little-used kind of lawsuit that let a spouse seek damages from a third party for “stealing” a husband or wife’s love. In a unanimous opinion issued ...