Oct 25 2007
Cashing times for spurn husbands
October, 25
Its cashing times for those husbands whose wives elopes with any other man, as the husband can get a compensation on behalf of the loss of their wives by the person who fled their spouse. Such instances are becoming a common sight in our society when a wife elopes with her boss or colleague. In such cases as per the US law the spurned spouse has the right to get the sum of money as compensation by a lawsuit. This alienation of affection is making the life of such person with whom the wife elopes.
Now it is asked to the US Supreme Court to reduce the damages a man should pay to the husband whose wife ran off with him. In one of such instance in Mississippi a business man paid £55,000 in punitive damages to the spurned spouse. It is known that Mississippi is the only seven US states which still entertain lawsuits by people who claim loss of their wife, as a law rooted in the antiquated notion of a woman as her husband’s property. This law on one side has given some relaxation to the spurned husband but on the other hand has made the person with whom the wife elopes restless.
According to the Mississippi court such suits is for the protection of the love, society, companionship and comfort which is the foundation of a marriage. And hope next time such instance occurs then it would be more calculative before it happens.