{"id":31405,"date":"2018-07-31T02:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31405"},"modified":"2018-07-31T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T02:04:11","slug":"alienation-of-affection-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31405","title":{"rendered":"Alienation of affection? For real?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some states have archaic laws on the books, such as one that has produced an eye-popping court settlement that has my head spinning.<\/p>\n

North Carolina is one of a few states that has a law called “alienation of affection” on the books. This story was reported this morning.<\/p>\n

It goes like this: A married began having an affair with a man. Her estranged husband was so outraged that he filed a lawsuit under the alienation of affection statute.<\/p>\n

Then the married man, the guy his wife jilted, won a settlement totaling nearly $9 million.<\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/a> is one of just six states that have such a law. I believe the law needs to go. It needs to be scuttled along with other statutes, such as, say, states’ anti-sodomy laws that essentially prohibit gay men from having intimate relations in the privacy of their own bedroom.<\/p>\n

What the alienation of affection law implies is that wives are the “property” of their husbands, that they are unable to make decisions on their own. I wasn’t aware, for example, that marital infidelity was against the law. Men and women commit these acts damn near every hour of every day.<\/p>\n

Am I condoning it? Of course not.<\/p>\n

However, I do not condone the state intruding in the private business of married couples who grappling with life-changing decisions and actions.<\/p>\n

When I heard that only six U.S. states have such a law on the books, I feared Texas was one of them. It isn’t.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court might eventually get to decide this matter on appeal, which the wife’s paramour in the North Carolina case has vowed to pursue.<\/p>\n\n

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