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Does an Affair Legally Matter in Divorce?

With the advent of no-fault divorce, many think that fault no longer matters.  As it relates to divorce, the viewpoint is that an affair does not matter at all. Some think that courts will not look at it and give it no weight at all.  In the end, the view is everything is going to be divided in half anyway.  Child support and maintenance is going to be what it is.  And in terms of child custody, many think an affair is irrelevant. Is this correct?  The reality is that this viewpoint is not accurate in many states.  It is true that

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Is the reason people have affairs is that they want to stay married?

“The reason people have affairs is that they want to stay married,” contends Noel Biderman, chief executive of Avid Life Media Inc., which operates AshleyMadison.com, the world’s largest online hookup site for married people. “There’s a lot at stake in a marriage such as social status, jointly owned property, maybe children. A divorce might be messy, even difficult depending on the laws.”In Japan, according to a recently conducted survey, 84 percent of Japanese women believed an affair worked as a plus for their marriage. However, extramarital affairs are not new to Japan, the nation that invented the geisha in its

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Affairs happen in happy marriages: What are we looking for?

It was once thought that only people in unhappy marriages have affairs. But this is not necessarily the case in marriages today. It turns out that “happy” is not the sufficient antidote to having an affair. One of the factors pushing people away from happy marriages to having affairs is the tight, companionable, completely “merged” nature of the modern marriage, according to therapist Esther Perel, who is described as the nation’s “sexual healer,” an updated Dr. Ruth, as described in a recent New York Times profile. She is the author of Mating in Captivity, which says that in seeking comfort,

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