 | 1. Divorce Source: Torts/Intentional Interference with Contractual Relationship/Heart Balm Statute:
The plaintiff sought damages for the defendants affair with the plaintiffs wife. The plaintiffs cause of action was styled as one for intentional interference with a contractual relationship. The court held that this cause of action was foreclosed by the abolition of the torts of criminal conversati
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100.0%
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| | 2. Divorce Source: Cases of Interest: Torts
Case law and analysis of divorce cases related to torts. Visit Other Cases of Interest
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95.7%
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| | 3. Divorce Source: New Jersey Marital Tort FAQs
Basically, a tort is a civil wrong, for which the court will provide a remedy in the form of an action for damages. Torts may be intentional, negligent or reckless. They may result in any number of physical or emotion injuries and they also include injuries to property. Torts have increasingly becom
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69.6%
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| | 4. Divorce Source: ECONOMIC TORTS
The lawyer representing a client in a divorce action faces special responsibilities. The enactment of no-fault divorce, combined with the development of equitable distribution and changes in community property law, has shifted the emphasis in divorce from fault to the proper identification, valuatio
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65.2%
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| | 5. Divorce Source: INTERSPOUSAL TORTS FRAUDULENT PROPERTY TRANSFERS
(©1998) In this groundbreaking new decision, the Texas Supreme Court puts the brakes on its recent trend to permit interspousal tort suits. The ruling bars interspousal tort claims and the recovery of punitive
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65.2%
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| | 6. Divorce Source: Torts/Fraud/Concealment of Assets:
In a combined action for independent equitable relief and damages, the husband appealed a judgment modifying permanent orders for property distribution and maintenance and awarding the wife damages, exemplary damages, and attorneys fees, based upon the husbands fraudulent concealment of assets and
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65.2%
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| | 7. Divorce Source: Torts/Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress/Raised in Divorce Action:
In this case, the court adopted the rule that intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress claims may be brought in a divorce action. Emotional distress is as real and tormenting as physical pain, and psychological well-being deserves as much legal protection as physical well-being [citation omitte
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65.2%
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| | 8. Divorce Source: Torts/Fraud/Nondisclosure of Investments:
The wife alleged that the husband breached his fiduciary duty to her by failing to disclose the nature of the parties investments during the course of the marriage, under Family Code 1100 and 721. The trial court agreed with the wife, but the appellate court reversed. The court held that there was
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65.2%
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| | 9. Divorce Source: Torts/Criminal Conversation/Validity of Cause of Action
A husband filed a complaint for divorce from his wife, who then filed a tort action for criminal conversation against the husband
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65.2%
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| | 10. Divorce Source: Torts/Fraud/Breach of Promise of Love and Affection
Husband alleged that in reliance upon these representations he married wife and placed five properties which were his separate property in joint title with wife during the marriage. Prior to the filing of the divorce action, wife allegedly told husband that she had never loved him and had not been
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65.2%
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