Maybe I’ve missed it, but I don’t recall ever hearing of such a lawsuit (Politico):
The estranged wife of former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.), who served 12 years in Congress before retiring in January, has filed a lawsuit against his alleged mistress, claiming their adulterous relationship ruined the Pickerings’ marriage and his political career.
Fascinating. Think it’ll fly?
Should it?
Well, if you define marriage as a legal contract, I guess you could sue for interfering with said contract…
What I don’t understand, though, is how his ex-wife can sue for the fact that his career was ruined.
~EdT.
Yeah, I agree — her suing because his career got messed up is pretty funny. But that whole legal contract thing’s kind of an interesting angle.
Yeah, I never would have thought of it that way, but I recall reading in the ongoing Sotomayor hearings that someone bragged on having voted for DOMA as “a contract between one man and one woman”. Which means, if the cyberbullymom’s convictions are reinstated, that being unfaithful (especially if it crosses state lines) could result in a federal felony conviction…
BTW, have a great vacation. Wish I could be up there where it is cool, too.
~EdT.
The contract was between the two of them, not the mistress. First person to be sued should have been him. Of course the normal bar fight version of this is “You are messing with my (whatever). I am going to kick your…”.
Always seems to me that the person you have the agreement with is the one who should be in trouble, but that would be applying logic to an emotional situation, and would do anything except end the relationship the fight is over, which is not the resualt they want.
Of course there is no real way to know if they did not have an agreement between the married partners that allowed outside relationships… or even if he told the mistress that they did.