You can sue the "seducer" instead of the cheating partner? What?
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
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the way it was explained to me was that the divorce would be how a partner punishes the cheater, the alienation of affection laws were how you went after the other party.
i was also told proceedings were rare, the laws were old, and usually more of something that is used to pursue better divorce terms.
i think originally the patriarchal idea was that if some rich man steals your wife away with his lavish gifts of silk dresses and exotic chocolates, you can get a bite of him on his way out the door, assuming you can prove he knew she was legally married.
What an absolutely shitty law. Sue him.
I changed the title to hopefully seem less biased. The original article title says that the woman "destroyed" the marriage, places all the blame on the woman influencer.
I don't agree with the law. I think it's a bizarre news story
The significance of this story is that it's going viral on tiktok and youtube. I suspect there may be a lot of youtube essays coming out of this.
Why is this a law?
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damn if only I could hand this out for the idiot things I have to overhear in the imperial core
I agree with this just because a tik tok influencer is getting shafted