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mfuture
Aug 2, 2011, 04:36 AM
Can a spouse file a law suit against his spouse fro adultery

excon
Aug 2, 2011, 05:14 AM
Hello m:

Not in the USA.

excon

AK lawyer
Aug 2, 2011, 06:27 AM
Well, yes.

But the relief you can get from the court would not be the "impreisiment" of the offending spouse (or imprisonment either). It would be a decree of divorce.

However, since all states now allow "no-fault" divorces, upon grounds such as irreconciliable differences, adultery as a basis for divorce is pretty-much redundant.

Imprisonment is a punishment for a crime, not a remedy available in a civil lawsuit (the procedure by which one person sues another person in a court of law). If adultery were still a crime (I'm fairly certain it isn't anywhere, at least in the U.S.), the government (not an individual such as one party to a marriage) would be the one filing the lawsuit.