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    Default Mississippi Alienation Of Affection

    My question involves alienation of affection law for the State of: Mississippi

    Please tell me if I have some grasp of what this entails! Alienation of affection is not a felony. It is a tort action brought against the person who is having an affair with a non-divorced person and is for monetary damages. --

    If I am correct in understanding that, then if the person (the paramour) lives in another state and all the interaction between the spouse and paramour happened in another state, does the spouse who is filing the claim have a leg to stand on?

    Married less than one year -- if that helps any

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    Default Re: Mississippi Alienation Of Affection

    if the person (the paramour) lives in another state and all the interaction between the spouse and paramour happened in another state, does the spouse who is filing the claim have a leg to stand on?
    It's my understanding that the answer to this is Yes.

    However...

    You'd have to prove that the paramour deliberately destroyed the marriage - essentially, the paramour willfully seduced the spouse and it's all the paramour's fault.

    Your entire marriage gets put out on display for all the world to see during these proceedings. Do you really want to do that? As well as lay all the blame at the feet of the paramour and none at the feet of the philanderer?

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    If in fact the "paramour" lives in another state and "all the interaction between the spouse and paramour happened in another state", would expect the paramour to try to get a suit in Mississippi dismissed on the basis that Mississippi lacks personal juridsdiction over him/her.

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    Default Re: Mississippi Alienation Of Affection

    Thanks to you both. The personal jusridiction matter was a big question but I guess you can sue anyone for almost anything these days!

    After speaking with an attorney, these cases are more for when a wealthy older person swops in on an unsuspecting couple who are otherwise happy, but woos one spouse away with all their $$ and charms.

    So if the wife sues she has to prove 1. The marriage was pure bliss before this paramour, 2. that the paramour knew and pursued anyway, and 3. that if not for this paramour, the couple would still be together and not going through a divorce. Airing dirty laundry is never good, if all you get is nowhere.

    This type of suit is for monetary damages and if the paramour isn't wealthy all you get is a piece of paper -- IF you can prove the marriage wasn't over before the paramour came into the picture.

    my reckoning from what I know about this matter is the paramour had no idea that the philanderer was married -- until after their interaction. So airing the dirty laundry would be letting the world know that you married a philanderer and that's not going to get very far with this sort of case and
    that if the marriage wasn't over, the philanderer wouldn't have been out looking...still may not be the right way to go about things, but this day and age -- anything goes!

    Thanks again for the responses. Great forum!!

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