Court Opinion

ID: 9705849
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:23:40.324122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:26:04.709900
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*136MASON, Justice
(dissenting).
It is my opinion some form of action should be preserved by which the aggrieved party may seek relief from one who intentionally interferes with such aggrieved party’s legally protected right to be free from such interference with his or her marital relationship causing the loss of love, companionship and affection of the spouse.
In division II the majority determines the action for alienation of affections should be retained. I agree but maintain some defenses not now recognized should be available to one against whom such a claim is asserted. The majority does not impose such a limitation on the action. Hence, I cannot agree with the result reached in division II.
In division III the majority abolished the right of recovery based on criminal conversation for conduct occurring after January 1, 1978. Since I cannot agree that a sufficient difference exists between a claim for relief based on alienation of affections and one based on criminal conversation which would permit the retention of one and the abolishment of the other, I dissent from division III.