Suing your husband's mistress

Cynthia with her dog

A North Carolina woman, Cynthia Shackelford, 60, thought her husband Allan was deeply in love with her. Then came his late nights at the office and suspicious charges on his credit card and cell phone bills. And finally, a private investigator confirmed what she had feared: Her husband, she said, was having an affair.

Under centuries-old North Carolina case law, Shackelford sued her husband's alleged mistress, Anne Lundquist, for "alienation of affection," charging that the woman broke up her 33-year marriage.

She says that the woman manipulated her husband and convinced him to walk out on 33 years of marriage.

Last week, Shackelford won. A jury awarded her $5 million in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages to be paid by Lundquist, her husband's mistress.


"She set her sights on him. ... She knew he was married," Shackelford said of Lundquist Monday. "You don't go after married men and break up families."

North Carolina is one of seven states that allows the people to be sued for cheating with a married man or woman.
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Source: Yahoo News


Lol.
America and the things possible over there. I love that country I swear...lol
If it were possible to sue mistresses every where in the world, there won't be that many mistresses would there?
But who do you really blame in situations like this, the husband or the mistress?