Assertion: adultery's spouse | /r/CapableOf | commit adultery
Facets:
value: during the marriage
type: TEMPORAL
value: at fault
type: MANNER
value: because of a secret desire
type: CAUSE
value: from receiving alimony
type: OTHER
value: during property division proceedings
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: You should not expect that a judge will penalize a spouse who committed adultery during property division proceedings.
text: If the spouse seeking an alimony award committed adultery, he or she will have a more difficult time convincing the court that he or she is entitled to alimony than if he or she had not been unfaithful.
text: A 2016 survey suggested that in more than one-third of marriages, one or both spouses commit adultery.
text: In Tennessee, if a spouse commits adultery during the marriage, the court can deny that spouse alimony during the divorce.
text: If the spouse seeking an alimony award committed adultery, he or she will have a more difficult time convincing the court that he or she is entitled to alimony than if he or she had not been unfaithful.
text: When a spouse commits adultery, Nevada courts can consider money spent on the affair when deciding how to divide the couple’s property.
text: Before 1995, the law in North Carolina absolutely prohibited a spouse who had committed adultery from receiving alimony.
text: the adulterous spouse only committed adultery because of a secret desire to get divorced
text: both spouses committed adultery.
text: For example, what if one of the spouses in Wright had been able to prove that the other spouse committed adultery, that the adultery caused the “innocent spouse” to have a serious mental breakdown, be hospitalized, and then be laid off from work?
text: Tennessee courts ruled that “punitive alimony” is not permitted, even for a spouse who committed adultery.
text: A 2016 survey suggested that in more than one-third of marriages, one or both spouses commit adultery.
text: This can be proven in three ways: (1) The spouses have lived separate and apart for one year (no fault); (2) The spouse against whom the divorce proceeding is brought has committed adultery (at fault); (3) The spouse against whom the divorce proceeding is brought has treated the other spouse with physical or mental cruelty (at fault)
text: In Ontario (as elsewhere in Canada), the laws relating to divorce based on a adultery are governed by the federal Divorce Act, which provides that a “breakdown of a marriage is established only if the spouses have lived separate and apart for at least one year or the spouse against whom the divorce proceeding is brought has committed adultery or treated the other spouse with physical or mental cruelty.
text: 1996), that when a spouse committed adultery before the marriage, that fact was immaterial in awarding alimony or dividing the marital property.
text: In Pennsylvania, a spouse that commits adultery that leads to divorce is not eligible to receive alimony.
text: ’s own admission) that your spouse committed adultery.
text: Virginia law does not exact any type of “fine” or punitive damages from the spouse who committed adultery.
text: However, when one spouse commits adultery and uses a large chunk of marital assets on a lover (for example, on gifts, vacations, or hotel rooms), the judge may find this to be a “wasteful dissipation” of the marital assets.