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 ...

GRAHAM — Marriage is complicated in America: a sacred institution and a bond entered into with little more than two signatures, and a ceremony sometimes broken in a matter of months in what is almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty (2) Akira Montague with her attorney, Robonetta Jones; Brenay Kennard. A TikToker's North Carolina lawsuit is making headlines.

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 ...

Alienation of affection is a unique and emotionally charged legal claim. It allows a spouse to hold a third party civilly liable for intentionally interfering in a marriage, resulting in the loss of ...

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 ...

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 ...