In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife’s lover
“Heart-balm” torts are a legal anachronism at the centre of a statehouse drama
Heartache is messy; marriage is made of compromise. How potentially satisfying, then, to see all the mess and ambiguity turned into something simple and unequivocal in a lawyer’s brief. In North Carolina and a handful of other states, a jilted spouse can indeed sue for heartbreak.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The heart of the matter”
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