(Meredith/AP) — A judge says a Texas man's affair with a North Carolina man's wife should cost him nearly $9 million. The Herald-Sun of Durham reports that Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson awarded Keith King $8.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages Thursday from Francisco Huizar III. King had sued Huizar for, among other complaints, criminal conversation and alienation of affection. North Carolina is one of a few states where jilted spouses can sue affair partners. Attorney Joanne Foil says the affair and an alleged assault by Huizar cost King's company, BMX Stunt Shows, revenue and an employee, as his wife worked for the company. Huizar's attorney, Cheri Patrick, says the Kings' marriage was damaged before Huizar met the wife at a BMX show. Patrick says King was controlling and manipulative. Huizar plans to appeal. http://www.fox10tv.com/story/387657...million-for-breaking-up-another-mans-marriage What say you? I say its a great law. Stay away from married people.
I agree with you. It's a great law, provided that the outside cheater has been told that the spouse is married.
Tis BS. The wife and the (is there a masculine version of 'mistress'?) are both scum, but they didn't do anything illegal. We don't want morality to be enforced by the state.
I don't like this law only because an unhappy marriage may have resulted in the affair. I know that divorce is the answer rather than an affair and sometimes there is much strife during that divorce process, especially if one partner is mentally or physically abusive. That law in Noth Carolina is archaic and needs to be adjusted in some way.
