Could you take your husband’s mistress to court? Charlotte divorce attorney, Erin Clarey, joins us this week to discuss how Alienation of Affection works, as well as what means of surveillance are legal between spouses.

Can your spouse use your Facebook as evidence against you during a divorce? Raleigh divorce attorney, Melissa Essick, joins us this week to discuss  what NOT to post on your Facebook once separated, as well as what North Carolina courts and couples define as a separation.

Does your short-lived marriage qualify for an annulment?  Better yet, is your spouse able to take half of your property? Raleigh divorce attorney, Kristin Stroud, joins us this week to discuss the ins and outs of property distribution and your options for trying to get out of a bad marriage.

Does adultery affect things like alimony or child custody? Charlotte divorce lawyer Ketan Soni joins us to talk about how adultery can affect your divorce.

I just read an interesting piece in USA Today that explores the rules of infidelity.

Is infidelity just about having an affair or does infidelity also involve having lunch everyday with a coworker of the opposite sex? If you abstain from a physical relationship are you safe from being accused of cheating?

Marriage experts say that infidelity can exist even if adultery isn’t part of the picture.

In today’s world, what do you think are the rules of infidelity?

Are adulterous affairs morally wrong? Based on the 2006 Pew Research Center survey, A Barometer of Modern Morals, 88% of the public said it was morally wrong to have an affair while married.

The survey also revealed that most people felt cheating on your spouse was worse (on the moral compass) than cheating on your income taxes.

Coming in the lowest on the moral compass was gambling and overeating.

In light of the Eliot Spitzer incidence and the fact that his successor, David Patterson, also admitted to having an affair when he and his wife were going through a rough time, many question whether we as a society are too forgiving of these kinds of acts.

Some argue that the incidence of adultery is ever increasing and that the media is to blame.

According to a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, women are more likely than men to use electronic evidence in their divorce. Divorce is changing and so is adultery. Some even argue that alimony is unconstitutional.

I just read an interesting article from the Financial Times, Divorce is just not what it used to be.

According to a new survey, 88% of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers say an increasing number of people going through a divorce use electronic data as evidence that their spouse has been cheating on them, hiding assets, and more.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University reported how approximately 20 to 25 percent of men compared to 10 to 15 percent of women have had an extramarital affair at least once during their marriage.

Here are some of the factors associated with an increased risk:

-having been part of a couple for a long time
-having had a high number of prior sex partners
-being male or black
-living in a central city
-thinking about sex several times a day

Do we perceive adultery different from our European counterparts? I just read an interesting article in Best Life magazine about how in the U.S. if a spouse commits adultery the marriage is ruined, but in Europe it’s just considered a bump in the relationship. Should we automatically write off our spouse if they commit adultery? Is the marriage doomed?

According to this article, over half the marriages in this country end in divorce and 17 percent of them are blamed on infidelity. Our infidelity rate is about the same as the French, yet our divorce rate is significantly higher.

N.C. House bill 681 was filed some time last week and is in committee.

Some have advocated to abolish this bill like divorce attorney Lee Rosen who says ‘these torts are archaic methods for eliminating infidelity and do not protect marital relationships’.

N.C. is only one of a handful of states that still has these laws in the books. Do you think they should be abolished?

Here’s a Newsweek article that ran in December citing Lee Rosen about this.

Based on the language in a Michigan law, the state’s second-highest court recently announced that those who commit adultery in Michigan might be prosecuted for first degree criminal sexual conduct. This type of felony could result in life in prison.

Rosen Law Firm has some interesting information about Alienation of Affection and Criminal Conversation on their web site.

If you want to spy on your spouse, there are limits, legally. For instance, you are not allowed to record a conversation or hide a camera without getting their permission. Wiretapping laws are violated all the time, so why aren’t people getting caught? Or are they?

Here’s some interesting news about alienation-of-affection in North Carolina. We are still one of the few states that has this.  Should a claim of alienation-of-affection be valid even after a couple separates?

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Newsday ran an interesting article about spousal cheating reporting a survey of 19,000 U.S. adults conducted between 1991 and 2004. Of those who participated in the survey, 13 percent of women and 22 percent of men reported having a sexual partner with someone other than their spouse while they were married.

Click here to read more.

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Where do you draw the line on cheating? A court in Belgium recently ruled that racy online chats were sufficent grounds to divorce, but weren’t necessarily adulterous. Reuters posted a brief about this today.
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What’s really killing the American family and destroying the sanctity of marriage? Some say it’s legalizing homosexual marriages. Others blame it on cohabitating before saying ‘I do’. An interesting guest opinion ran in The Illinois Leader entitled, Adultery is Killing the American Family.

North Carolina is one of seven states that still allow lawsuits over adultery under the alienation of affection and criminal conversation (sexual intercourse between a defendant and the plaintiff’s spouse) laws.  Many want to abolish these laws, while others say it protects the sanctity of marriage. Divorce experts say this law is outdated and needs to be abolished. Click here to read more.

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Do same sex affairs count? A divorce was granted to a woman in Vancouver, Canada today after a judge decided that her husband’s affair with another man counted as adultery, which served as grounds for divorce. Click here to read an article about this.

The judge had to modify the traditional definition of adultery known in the courts as:  voluntary sex between a spouse and someone of the opposite sex, to whom the person is not married.

North Carolina is one of seven states that still allow lawsuits over adultery under the alienation of affection and criminal conversation (sexual intercourse between a defendant and the plaintiff’s spouse) laws.  Recently, a woman in Durham, NC sued her husband’s gay lover accusing him of stealing her husband from her.  Same-sex alienation of affection cases are very rare.

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