Husband sues Ashley Madison, blames online cheating site for end of marriage
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 12/17/2013 01:07 PM [ Comments ]
A jilted husband is suing the online infidelity website Ashley Madison; he blames the site for the breakup of his marriage. Life is short - Have an affair!
According to the Charlotte Observer, Robert Schindler is suing his now ex-wife's alleged partner in the tryst, along with Ashley Madison and its Canadian corporate parent, Avid Dating Life Inc.
North Carolina remains one of only a half-dozen states that still awards punitive damages when a marriage fails and someone other than the husband and wife is to blame.
The suit alleges that after Schindler's wife and Eleazar “Chay” Montemayor met on the site in 2007 the love and affection he and his wife shared "was alienated and destroyed by the defendants."
The so-called alienation of affection/criminal conversation laws have survived numerous efforts by judges, lawyers and some legislators to repeal them, and in recent years they have led to million-dollar judgments for wronged spouses.
Noel Biderman, a former lawyer and sports agent who started Ashley Madison in 2002 says that "we in no way participate in any 'offline' encounters."
"I think it would be an incredibly slippery slope to attempt to espouse blame to all the technology and inanimate objects that were utilized in an affair."
I think that if a spouse decides to use this site to browse for something 'better' then the marriage is already over before the first keystroke - an affair begins in the head long before it becomes physical. Also, I wonder what kind of precedent this will set if an inanimate object, such as a website, can be be assigned blame....how will that end?
North Carolina remains one of only a half-dozen states that still awards punitive damages when a marriage fails and someone other than the husband and wife is to blame.
The suit alleges that after Schindler's wife and Eleazar “Chay” Montemayor met on the site in 2007 the love and affection he and his wife shared "was alienated and destroyed by the defendants."
The so-called alienation of affection/criminal conversation laws have survived numerous efforts by judges, lawyers and some legislators to repeal them, and in recent years they have led to million-dollar judgments for wronged spouses.
Noel Biderman, a former lawyer and sports agent who started Ashley Madison in 2002 says that "we in no way participate in any 'offline' encounters."
"I think it would be an incredibly slippery slope to attempt to espouse blame to all the technology and inanimate objects that were utilized in an affair."
I think that if a spouse decides to use this site to browse for something 'better' then the marriage is already over before the first keystroke - an affair begins in the head long before it becomes physical. Also, I wonder what kind of precedent this will set if an inanimate object, such as a website, can be be assigned blame....how will that end?
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