What do nairalanders think about this law that's still in place in a few states of the USA Where a spouse can sue someone for "snatching" away their wife of husband and many are taking advantage of it and winning big,
A missisippi plumber earlier in the year won over $750,000 against a millionaire who snatched away his wife and married her and all the appeals have been upheld.
When Sandra Valentine divorced her husband, Johnny, and married the man who had fathered her child during an affair, it had every appearance of another unremarkable tale of marital breakdown.
But when Johnny hit back and sued his rival Jerry Fitch for a six-figure sum, the Mississippi love triangle took on an altogether different dimension. And when he won in a verdict upheld by the state supreme court, he was suddenly richer to the tune of £750,000.
Valentine took advantage of a quirk in the law in Mississippi which, like six other US states, allows claims of "spousal theft": if a man - or perhaps even a woman - takes another's property, ie their spouse, they can be sued.
So Johnny Valentine sued Fitch under the state's "alienation of affection" law, which allows a cuckolded spouse to seek damages for "loss of society, companionship, love and affection", as well as "the loss of sexual relations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/10/usa.danglaisterwhat do y'all think?
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