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Where is Jackson Browne now that we really need him?

By AndytheLawyer on 2010 03 19, 8:33 am CDT

$9 million—-that sex better be pretty good for that kind of coin!!

By High Price on 2010 03 19, 8:33 am CDT

I never attended any institution where the Dean of Campus Life took her job so seriously.

By B. McLeod on 2010 03 19, 9:50 am CDT

The REAL story is that the “alienation of affections” claim has survived into the 21st Century.  A quaint legacy of another time.

By Lee on 2010 03 19, 11:45 am CDT

No one every thinks their “significant” will cheat - Wake up -  that is exactly what they want you to think!  They are all capable, human and able to lie.  Come on, we all see liars in court everyday.  If you can lie under oath - you don’t a person can lie under a marriage certificate that is not plastered in front of them? 
Reality is - you shose that spouse and he owed you the trust and respect - he violated you - not the other woman.  By the way, cheaters son’t just scheat on their wife/ husband - they cheat on their entire family - the kids were also deprived of their love, attention and time - not justthe lonely spouse. 
The “other woman” will get her own - what come around goes around - and I bet she too believes him when he says, “I would never sheat on YOU” - HA!

By Kim on 2010 03 19, 12:24 pm CDT

Dear “Prop 8 lovin’, Defense of Marriage” Republicans,
Why don’t you devote as much energy to getting “alienation of affections” claims back on the books in all 50 states?
Love,
The Family Law bar

By Chortle on 2010 03 19, 1:34 pm CDT

Ms Shackelford ..know your hurt..
Let’s hope Elizabeth Edwards goes for Rielle Hunter..

By Lou on 2010 03 19, 1:34 pm CDT

This reminds me of Dean Wormer’s wife.  Did not she have a run in the sack with one of the students from the Delta House?

If so, could that guy’s girlfriend bring a claim for alienation of affections, since they were NOT married?

I want an answer to this.  Please do not have anyone other than external counsel OPINE on this.

Not MCLOUD, either, please.

By SHEKETOVITS on 2010 03 19, 2:53 pm CDT

#8—In North Carolina you need spousal status to invoke this law and its remedies. 

More importantly, nothing in “Animal House” suggests that Faber College, or Otter’s and Mrs. Wormer’s tryst, were in North Carolina. 

Finally, I’m not sure that Mrs. Wormer had any affections to alienate.  She was just drunk and horny.

By AndytheLawyer on 2010 03 19, 3:48 pm CDT

I am not sure it was Otter who had sex with Mrs. Wormer. Wasn’t he named Flounder or Weasel? 

Besides, the girfriend wound up having sex with the professor (Donald Sutherland), or at least stayed overnight with him, and I do not think they were playing Parcheesi all night.

So even if a claim were allowed in the applicable state, there could be an affirtmative defense available to Mrs. Wormer; namely, the mock humpee or don’t ask don’t tell defense—adultry not available, hence humping permitted unless there was a committed relationship.

By Flounder Squared on 2010 03 20, 7:18 am CDT

No, it was Otter.  Flounder was the fat freshman pledge.  His track record with the ladies was on the opposite end of the spectrum from Otter’s.

By AndytheLawyer on 2010 03 21, 1:34 pm CDT

What other states does is this law on the books, and if the mistress is from another state does it apply.  Such as marriage in Maryland, mistress in Virginia.  Also is more than one mistress could you sued each one….......Wow this is amazing, maybe more cheating men like my x-husband would think twice and seek mental health before destroying a 30 year marriage and their children

By Carol Coleman on 2010 03 22, 7:50 am CDT

“Dear “Prop 8 lovin’, Defense of Marriage” Republicans,
Why don’t you devote as much energy to getting “alienation of affections” claims back on the books in all 50 states?”

That’s a great idea!

Sadly, liberals have been in the forefront of making legal challenges so that alienation of affection statutes are removed from the law. The reason is simple: adultery is a judgment that requires marriage. So, if you remove the judgment, marriage becomes less normative. Hence, marriage is less normative—something that can molded into any shape you wish—it may include a number of any gender and can be dissolved for any reason or no reason at all. In other words, marriage is over.

Read the last paragraph in Appel’s anti-marriage screed from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/hate-the-husband-sue-the_b_311419.html

Sodomy and adultery are of a piece, and their enemy is marriage.

By Thomas Aquinas on 2010 03 22, 8:21 pm CDT

Aquinas—if you think sodomy and adultery are “of a piece,” then you’re probably doing both of them wrong.  I recommend some quality time curled up with “Sodomy for Dummies” and “Adultery For Dummies.”

By AndytheLawyer on 2010 03 23, 8:27 am CDT

Great, now she’s going to argue that the Constitution forbids North Carolina from observing such a tort, even though the tort has been around for centuries.  Here we have two modern art forms for the price of one:  dodging the constitutional-amendment process, and running to the feds when local laws displease you.

By logos on 2010 03 23, 9:40 am CDT

Faber College was located in Pennsylvania.  “Animal House’ was filmed in Oregon.  Here’s evidence:

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/locales.htm

So, once and for all we can safely advise those concerned that North Carolina law won’t apply to the Wormers.  Otter is safe.

By AndytheLawyer on 2010 03 23, 12:16 pm CDT

Amen Chortle! 

  From Texas Family Law Specialist

By Chrissyesq on 2010 03 23, 5:18 pm CDT