Robonetta B. Jones speaks to ESSENCE about the "alienation of affection" law, the growing trend of these lawsuits, and why ...

About 200 people a year file lawsuits in North Carolina against the man or woman their spouse is having an affair with. Only seven states still have the law, but many lawmakers are reluctant to take ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missourians can no longer sue a person for stealing their spouse's love, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The case stemmed from a ...

Aug 21, 2021: Former Panthers wide receiver and now commentator Steve Smith Sr. before the game between the Carolina Panthers and Baltimore Ravens at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim ...

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 ...

North Carolina’s law allowing people to sue their spouse’s lover and collect damages violates constitutional protections on free speech and free expression and serves no legitimate state interest, a ...

"Nobody takes alienation of a parent's affections seriously, and no one asks what kind of damage this does to the children." The suit, Segal v. Lynch, was lodged by millionaire-developer Moses Segal, ...

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that still allow alienation-of-affection lawsuits, and now some divorce lawyers want the old law repealed. In 2001, Christine Cooper of Greensboro won $2 ...

File photo of Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland — speaker of the North Carolina House — in his office at the NCGA. An alienation of affection lawsuit filed this week against Rep. Tim Moore — North ...

The N.C. Court of Appeals upheld Tuesday the constitutionality of a state law allowing people to sue their spouse’s lover and collect damages in a case involving a doctor and nurse at Wake Forest ...