New ruling abolishes century-old claims over third parties blamed for breaking up marriages, reshaping New Mexico family law ...

The New Mexico Supreme Court has ended a little-used kind of lawsuit that let a spouse seek damages from a third party for ...

Brennay Kennard was ordered to pay $1.75 million in damages to her husband's ex-wife, plaintiff Akira Montague Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty (2) A TikToker's North ...

State Supreme Court overturns law on broken marriages ...

This used to be possible under the old "alienation of affections" tort, but all but a handful of states have abolished it, and the tortious inducement of breach of contract tort can't fill that gap.

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 ...

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 ...

About 200 people a year file Alienation of Affection lawsuits in North Carolina against the man or woman their spouse is having an affair with. Only seven states still have the law, and few of these ...

The recent arrest of a North Carolina-based influencer accused of cyberstalking has brought a separate lawsuit against her back into the spotlight. Brenay Kennard, an influencer with over 3 million ...

In most states, carrying on with somebody’s spouse runs the risk of a knuckle sandwich and a stern tsk tsk. But in North Carolina, philandering with the legally wed carries the additional danger of a ...