alienation of affections

"We're not trying a cause for alienation of affections here.

"I'm going to sue you for alienation of affections," he said.

There has consequently developed 'an alienation of affections between fan and athlete'.

For some one to spit on you, foretells disagreements and alienation of affections.

As of 2009, eight U.S. states permitted such alienation of affections lawsuits.

An Alienation of Affections suit may be brought against an employer if one of these three circumstances is evident.

Other states allow jilted spouses to sue their ex-partners' lovers for alienation of affections.

In North Carolina, alienation of affections suits are still regularly pursued, with an estimated 200 lawsuits a year filed.

He was also involved in an alienation of affections lawsuit in 1938 involving Carole Landis.

Alienation of affections: Brought by a deserted spouse against a third party whom the spouse believes to be responsible for the failure of the marriage.

For example, for many years someone who could prove their spouse was sleeping with another could sue the spouse's lover for alienation of affections.

Alienation of affections was another similar tort against a third party who encouraged the adultery, or who was otherwise responsible for the breakdown of the marriage.

In a later lawsuit, after her death, Underhill blamed Robert Tyrrell, or Turrell, their manservant, for this alienation of affections.

Wheeler named Busby Berkeley in an alienation of affections lawsuit in 1938 involving Landis, and they divorced in 1939.

Such a one was the adultery trial of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn City Court in 1875 on a charge of alienation of affections.

In the fall of 1874 Theodore Tilton sued Henry Ward Beecher for "criminal conversation" - adultery - and for the "alienation of affections" of Tilton's wife.

In 1770 Lord Grosvenor sued him for adultery with his wife, and collected ,000 damages (less for alienation of affections than for the unauthorized use of his Lordship's property).

It is similar to breach of promise, a former tort involving a broken engagement against the betrothed, and alienation of affections, a tort action brought by a deserted spouse against a third party.

Alienation of affections was first codified as a tort by the New York state legislature in 1864, and similar legislation existed in many U.S. states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mr. Lane, formerly married and the father of a son (as he says, "Callas was named in my divorce for alienation of affections") is, for all his campiness, filled with feelings of immense insecurity.

I've fought will contests, tried suits for slander, libel, alienation of affections, and personal injuries, but I'm darned if I've ever had a case involving a glass eye, and this is going to be where I begin.

In that case, an individual taxpayer received certain amounts in settlement of his suit for damages on account of alienation of affections and in consideration for the surrender of the custody of his minor child.

"Equal rights" fanatics have also deprived women in Illinois and in some other states of most of their basic common-law rights to recover damages for breach of promise to marry, seduction, criminal conversation, and alienation of affections.

Revenue Ruling 74-77 is the 1974 income tax ruling by the IRS determining that a taxpayer may exclude from gross income "damages for alienation of affections" and for the "surrender of the custody of minor child".

That case excluded from gross income the amounts received by the taxpayer "as damages for alienation of affections or for the surrender of the custody of his child, whether under agreement of the parties or pursuant to judgment of the court."