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Wouldn't it be more to the point if she sued her husband? After all, it takes two people to make a mistress. Perhaps the best thing the wife can sue for is divorce.
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no but she could clean out her cheatin' husbands bank account.
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It's not the mistress who'd be causing the emotional distress, it'd be the cheating sack of shit of a so-called husband who'd be doing it.
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No. The mistress made no contract and had no obligation to hold to any contract. The contract of marriage was between you and your spouse.
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Why not? If she knows that he is married with children, why cann't the wife sued the mistress. The husband and spouse should be sued.....
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There is some fairly recent case law where wives have done just this and won. However, it is extremely difficult and will only fly if you are in the right state and jurisdiction. I think that there are very rare cases where this is justified. In most cases, it's a wife trying to blame the mistress for what her husband is responsible for. The mistress is not responsible for the wife's relationship with her husband.
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I think a wife should be able to sue the mistress for emotional distress because eventhough it does take two for an affair to fly, the mistress knowingly goes into a relationship intending to break that bond between a couple. Now, if she does not know that the man she is having an affair is married, that's another matter. Once she does discover he is married, the question is, is it moral for her to continue a relationship knowing that if she does, she may cause the death of a marriage. There is a case where a wife did sue the husband's mistress and won.
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