In June, Joel Weissman, a lawyer representing Nanette Sexton Bailey of West Palm Beach, Fla., will attempt to prove Richard Briggs Bailey cheated on his client using DNA testing. Weissman says the case was the first time a lawyer in a matrimonial case presented DNA evidence to prove adultery. Weissman says in July 1999 Sexton began to suspect her husband was cheating on her. During a visit to their horse farm in Vermont, she found unfamiliar strands of hair, a nightgown and stained bed sheets, all of which she had sent to a lab for analysis, he says. A no-fault divorce means that neither party is at fault for the failure of a marriage.
Judges don t want to waste their time hearing adultery allegations.
But for states like New York, fault still plays a big role in determining alimony amounts. Bronstein says he tells his clients who suspect their spouse is cheating to send their used underwear to a lab for DNA testing. You can draw a pretty good inference from that. Nearly half of all adult Americans are married. 2001 One in two marriages in the U.S. ends in divorce.