* 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...
..., sued the husband under Illinois' alienation-of-affection law, and in June, a jury actually fou...
While North Carolina remains one of the few states that still allows alienation of affection claims, a new law recently took effect limiting the time period for the suits. Under the new law, a party may not file suit if an affair takes place after the married couple has separated; before, one spouse could sue the third party for an affair no matter when it took place.
... sued Swanson under South Dakota's alienation of affection law, claiming Swanson's romantic invo...
A claim for alienation of affection accrues whenever the alienation is complete, regardless of the date of the plaintiffs' marital separation, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The plaintiff and her husband separated in 1998 and divorced in 2002. Before they separated, the husband engaged in an adulterous relationship with the defendant, whom he later married.
... for BREACH OF MARRIAGE PROMISE, alienation of affection, criminal conversation, and seduction...
... recovers a judgment against Alice for alienation of affection. Such a judgment would obviously infr...
A Mississippi woman could not explain away 107 cell phone calls to a married man when she tried to set aside an $88,000 jury verdict against her in an alienation-of-affection lawsuit. Alienation of affection as a cause of action is a relic of the past in most states. Of the seven states that still recognize the tort, only in North Carolina and Mississippi do you see the victims of extramarital affairs pursuing such claims with any frequency.
Engagement rings have a long history, dating from Roman times and before. An engagement ring indicates that the person wearing it is engaged to be married. Usually, the ring is presented to the bride- to-be as a betrothal gift by a man when she accepts his marriage proposal. Not every engagement results in a marriage. If the engagement is broken, the question arises, must the ring be returned to the man or is it the property of the woman? Matches made in heaven must be litigated on earth.
... law we had the heart-balm torts - alienation of affections, seduction, criminal conversation an...
A state House committee seeking a fix for an underfunded coastal insurance program on Thursday backed cutting the current coverage maximum of $1.5 million per home by half. The House Finance Committee rejected a bid to retain the current limit the Beach Plan would pay for primary homes in the 18 coastal counties where the plan is a vital insurance provider.
...ALIENATION OF AFFECTION The Senate has agreed to place limits...
CHICAGO - Stealing someone's heart can cost you: Just ask German Blinov. A Cook County jury ordered Blinov to shell out $4,802 last week after he was sued by a husband from a Chicago suburb for stealing the affections of the man's wife.
...The alienation of affection law, one of eight across the country,...
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