Women gets 9 mil $ award against Husband's mistress

[MushyMushy]

I think then when a husband or wife cheats, the cheater IS going to pay. If not in the divorce (the non-cheater would get a greater percentage of marital assets, right?), then as the family is torn apart, children take sides, mutual friendships are destroyed, the faithful partner's family is lost to the cheater, home and property is sold, and dreams are destroyed. Even the cheater suffers. Typically, it really is the "other woman" or "other man" who gets to sit there living the best of both worlds. Kinda nice to see them get to pay for the mess they help create. I'm not sure I agree with 9 million dollars, but I do think it is refreshing to see the co-cheater get to see his/her world crumble too.

I do not think anybody should be tied down in an unhappy relationship, but how hard is it to get a divorce before you start sleeping with somebody else?

I agree with everything you've written.

Maybe it'll make people thing twice before engaging in adultery.

 

[Robinrs]

I agree with everything you've written.

Maybe it'll make people thing twice before engaging in adultery.

Aids, STDs, pregancy and loss of all their reputation and property didn't stop it, I guess this will have to wait in line.

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

I have never understood hating the other person, the husband is the one that betrayed and humiliated you. Not the person he chose to cheat with.

 

[Praying Colonel]

As the article points out, very few states now permit alienation of affection as a cause of action. My state's high court abolished it in 1992. I wouldn't be surprised to see a North Carolina appeals court use this case as an opportunity to abolish it there.

 

[jrmasm]

9 million dollars? Sorry but to me that's just bizarre. How do they put a price on something like this?

Maybe he is really good at....you know.

 

[The Orchid]

I have never understood hating the other person, the husband is the one that betrayed and humiliated you. Not the person he chose to cheat with.

I've never been cheated on, but if I were I think I'd hate them both. The cheating partner is guilty, but so is the person sleeping with somebody who is clearly in a committed relationship.

 

[jen0610]

Divorce is a form of suing, when everything he had becomes yours!

My take is it takes two to tango. The EX, for all that we know, got taken to the cleaners in the divorce settlement. Which if it happened, was his paying for his part in the affair.

The mistress, for what we do know via the article, she now paying or will be paying for her part of the affair.

As far as I can tell, both parties are paying their dues for having the affair.

 

[Imzadi]

I hope Elin Woods sees this story

I was just about to say that. I can't believe one of the strippers is expecting an apology from Tiger. Where are all the apologies from the long list of these adulterers to Elin or helping tear her marriage asunder?

 

[Disney Doll]

It takes two to tango but it only take one to stop the dance.

Oh Tag Fairy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MushyMushy]

I have never understood hating the other person, the husband is the one that betrayed and humiliated you. Not the person he chose to cheat with.

The other person has chosen to disrespect your marriage and insert him or herself there -- what's not to hate?

 

[Robinrs]

I was just about to say that. I can't believe one of the strippers is expecting an apology from Tiger. Where are all the apologies from the long list of these adulterers to Elin or helping tear her marriage asunder?

If they didn't do it someone else would've. HE was the catalyst there.

As for the one asking for the apology, she's still basking in her 15 mins of fame, and every ET type show who will pay her for her stupidity. It's now becoming a CAREER!

 

[emma'smom]

I agree! They both deserve to pay up for their actions! Good law!

Sure it's her fault. When you go to bed with some one you KNOW is married, you are at fault. Period!! No one held a gun to her head, he didn't rape her so she made a concious decision to sleep with a married man. I have absolutely no problem with that. Was she the only person at fault nope. Did she have the ability to say 'YOUR MARRIED, I don't date married men" YES!!

It takes two to tango but it only take one to stop the dance.

I have no problem with wifey making mistresses life as miserable as humanly and legally possible.

 

[NCRedding]

As the article points out, very few states now permit alienation of affection as a cause of action. My state's high court abolished it in 1992. I wouldn't be surprised to see a North Carolina appeals court use this case as an opportunity to abolish it there.

Unfortunately, the Court of Appeals is required to enforce/follow the law until such time as our legistlators decide to abolish the law. They are much too busy enacting laws that limit the materials surrounding a license plate to be concerned about this issue. The legislature has had since the last one of these got so much press. (the lifetime movie also took place here) The reality is the cheating woman had no money with which to hire a trial lawyer, so she probably doesn't have enough to hire an appeals lawyer.

The other woman didn't show up for trial. The verdict was based in part on actual damages, fo example the loss of money the wife suffered when her successful husband left her, and punitive damages, those that punish the other woman. In reality, the other woman lives in another state, and has little if any property here in NC.

 

[PlainJane]

I think the woman sounds like a vindictive witch.

I hope the appeals court overturns the ruling and the legislator gets rid of this ridiculous law, that was enacted to begin with because the early settlers of North Carolina viewed women as property.

The husband should be forced to pay the $5,000 in alimony. He's the one who entered a marriage contract and chose to break it.

I'm not defending the other woman's actions. What she did was morally reprehensible, but was it really worth $9 million? How is she ever going to pay that?

 

[ticktock]

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I have never understood hating the other person, the husband is the one that betrayed and humiliated you. Not the person he chose to cheat with.

I wouldn't hate the other person because it was Dh who promised to be faithful BUT I would sure sue the pants off that lady anyway. I would also take every possible penny I could from DH.

That's if they were messing around behind my back. It is the possible transmission of disease that bothers me. If DH came to me and said I've fallen in love with someone else BEFORE he slept with her, well what can you do? I get half of everything and you pay child support and for college. Whatever.

I think we should bring back infidelity laws. No fault divorce is a blight on this country. And if you want to be on your spouses health insurance you should both be faithful. The insurance company should not be paying for your stds because you're swingers. This is my problem with open marriages.

Marriage isn't about "being happy" it is a socail contract. It states I will only have relations with this person to limit the spread of disease and so that we have the resources to raise our children. That's what marriage is. Everyone should have to take Anthropology 101 instead of two year of a language and maybe they wouldn't be so unhappy or at least so ignorant.

 

[Disney Doll]

I agree that the issue is first and foremost the cheating spouse.

But I also do not absolve the Other Person from blame. They could have just as easily said "I'm sorry, you're married and I don't sleep with married people".

Would I sue for $9million??? Probably not. But am I smiling because the wife in this scenario got to embarrass the Other Woman a little...why yes I am.

I find cheating abhorrent. I think people who will cheat lack integrity. I see no reason why the wronged spouse has to keep quiet about it. If the Other Person has no problem with what they are doing then they should have no problem with it being made public and paying for their behavior.

I like consequences.

 

[angie@dvcstore]

Dang thats a lot of money!

 

[Imzadi]

If they didn't do it someone else would've. HE was the catalyst there.

As for the one asking for the apology, she's still basking in her 15 mins of fame, and every ET type show who will pay her for her stupidity. It's now becoming a CAREER!

As one of my friends says to her 11 year old daughter, "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, does that mean you are going to also?"

Just because Tiger chose to swing his putter elsewhere, doesn't mean those women had to say yes. If all 11 (?) women said no, or even half of them, he might not have the level of "addiction" he claims he has.

That stripper has now cut her hair & is trying to create a new "wholesome" image of being a victim. She's hoping to get a new career out of this the way ex-Gov Spitzer's prostitute just got a "legit" job as an advice columnist for the NY Post.

The other person has chosen to disrespect your marriage and insert him or herself there -- what's not to hate?

Yes, isn't there still a part of the marriage ceremony where priest/minister turns to the audiences and says "Will those of you here today witnessing this joining promise to help keep this marriage together?"

While these women weren't physically there, as a society which loosely still believes in the institution of marriage, and these women are a part of it, they should have left Tiger alone. They could have said, get a divorce first, then we can play.

The legal term for the adulterous party is CO-respondent.

 

[a1tinkfans]

No. You see, there was a fire and the sprinkler system came on drenching them both. Only there was a chemical in the water that made their clothes all melt off. So there they were, both naked, and the husband was feeling a little faint from the chemical so he had to lay down on the floor. Then was happened was that the mistress tripped over a garbage can and accidentally landed on the husband in a very compromising way. Repeatedly.

So, as you can see, if the woman hadn't tripped like that then everything would have been fine. So it's clearly her fault.