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.

'A lot of people, quite frankly, think it is antiquated,' one lawyer said. After a North Carolina man was awarded a $750,000 judgment against his ex-wife’s lover, the “alienation of affections” law is ...

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 ...

A North Carolina jury has ordered social media influencer Brenay Kennard to pay $1.75 million to her manager's ex-wife after finding her liable for destroying their marriage—a verdict made possible by ...

Brenay Kennard, who has nearly three million TikTok followers, was found liable for alienation of affection and ordered to pay $1.75 million to her former client’s ex-wife. A North Carolina jury has ...

A North Carolina man says his divorce was almost unbearable, but an unusual legal claim just landed him a $750,000 judgment. According to court documents, Kevin Howard recently won a judgment against ...

In most states, carrying on with somebody’s spouse runs the risk of a knuckle sandwich and a stern tsk tsk. But in North Carolina, philandering with the legally wed carries the additional danger of a ...