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Weird News - Don't steal someone's affection!

North Carolina has an interesting law that severely punished people who cause a couple to divorce.  It's called "alienation of affection", and just as people are fined for littering, "homewreckers" face huge fines by the courts for their disregard for the sanctity of marriage.
 

Here in North Carolina, alienation of affection is taken very seriously and the victims of homewreckers are rewarded with multi-million dollar punishments.  In 2001, a Greensboro jury awarded $2 million and another jury awarded $1.2 million in 1997.

The alienation of affection law also provides financial rewards to the children who are often traumatized for life when they learn that their beloved Mommy showed her naughty bits to a guy other than Dad.

The seven States that allow lawsuits for alienation of affection laws include Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota and Utah.

For details on this fascinating law, see my blog notes on alienation of affection.