A wife's alienation of affection claim against her ex-husband's girlfriend was discharged in the defendant's bankruptcy action - despite the Bankruptcy Code's exemption from discharge for willful torts, the Illinois Appellate Court has ruled. After her divorce, a wife filed suit against the girlfriend, alleging that the woman engaged in a course of conduct intended to alienate the affections of the husband from his wife. The wife claimed that the defendant pursued and seduced her husband until she destroyed the martial relationship. During discovery, the wife introduced a letter from the defendant that said she "never intentionally wanted any of this to happen.
* AUSTRALIAN Jeffrey Lee is the last surviving member of the clan that controls the Koongarra uranium deposit near Kakadu National Park (east of Darwin). Federal law requires his permission for the French energy company Areva to extract the estimated 14,000 tons, perhaps worth the equivalent of $4.2 billion, but Lee vouches never to sell because "if you disturb that land, bad things will happen." "This is my country," he told the Sydney Morning Herald in July. "I'm not interested in money. I've got a job. ... I can go fishing and hunting. That's all that matters to me. * NORTHBROOK, ILL., husband Arthur Friedman persuaded his wife that after 10 years' marriage, they shou'd become mate-swapping swingers. His wife, reluctant at first, began to participate and eventually fell in love with...
... of irony, sued the husband under Illinois' alienation-of-affection law, and in June, a jury ...
CHICAGO (AP) - They say you can't buy love, but one Chicago man is trying to make somebody pay for it. After watching his wife, Lupe, walk out on him after 15 years of marriage, Steven Cyl is suing a neighbor down the street whose life she walked into.
... right had its origin in sentiment, in affection for the dead, in religious belief in some form of ... of a law forbidding commercial alienation of organs paradoxically portrays the human body as...Illinois, 94 U.S. 113, 134, 24 L.Ed. 77 (1876); accord Duke...
The wife of a man who cheated on her with another woman has settled the alienation of affection case against her husband's girlfriend for $25,000. Debbie Newton Bivins married Kirk Randall Bivins in 1993 and the couple separated in December 2008.
... in only a handful of states, such as Illinois and North Carolina. North Carolina recently passed...
..., for the consideration of love and affection, . Page 181 U.S. 567, 569. deeded the same by a d... the form or put limits upon the alienation of a homestead. It is claimed that the law does, a... has been held by the supreme court of Illinois in Kitterlin v. Milwaukee Mechanics' Mut. Ins. Co....
A bill that would shorten the statute of limitations and limit recovery from a business in alienation of affection suits in North Carolina has been passed by the state legislature and is waiting on a signature from the governor, reports the Insurance Journal. Alienation of affection lawsuits, where a jilted spouse brings a cause of action for damages against a former partner's new lover, are allowed in only a handful of states, such as Illinois and North Carolina.
... recovers a judgment against Alice for alienation of affection. Such a judgment would obviously infr.... (22.) Seven states--Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Da...
WASHINGTON - A plumber and a millionaire squared off in Mississippi over a woman. The woman chose the rich guy. The plumber sued the millionaire and won more than $750,000. Now Jerry Fitch Sr., a businessman from Holly Springs, Miss., wants the Supreme Court to step in and limit what a spurned spouse can collect through a lawsuit that claims "alienation of affection.
...The others are Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota and Utah...
...State of Illinois. (122) In that opinion, Chief Justice Waite first ... a civil proceeding for the tort of alienation of affections. (266) Yet, in colonial Pennsylvania...
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