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Stealing Affections

By The Daily Dish
Jan 21 2009, 3:42 AM ET

By Patrick Appel

Solangel Maldonado is wary of laws that allow individuals to sue "any person who wrongfully interferes with a person's marriage, thereby causing that person to lose his or her spouse’s affection." Maldonado's question:

...do courts that continue to entertain these claims know something I do not? These courts have reasoned that “[w]hen a third person is at fault for the breakdown of a marriage, the law ought to provide a remedy.” Norton v. Macfarlane (Utah 1991). Yet, given the complexity of human relationships, how exactly is a jury supposed to determine who is responsible for the breakdown of a marriage?



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