Man Who Had Affair With Wife Fined R11 Million By Court For Causing Husband And Wife To Divorce. Cheating has the possibility of hurting a lot of people.
Cheating has the possibility of hurting a lot of people. Some people end up mentally hurt because of cheating. It also leads to other people being violent, which is the worst response to the act. In most relationships, the person was involved in an affair is blamed more than the spouse who committed the infidelity. Well, it has great price to pay.
This time around the price came in the form of money for the person who had an affair with another man’s wife. A man from North Carolina, Robert Howard, was cheated by his ex-wife Julie George, the two were married for 12 years. She had an affair with one of her fellow workers. The cheating came as a surprise to Robert even though she formerly noted that she doesn’t wish to be married to him anymore. He says that she had stated that she wanted a divorce because he worked too much.
Robert Howard told WITN, “She had originally told me that she wanted a divorce because I work too much, wasn’t around to be there and I worked too much, wasn’t around to be there and I worked too much. I talked about that as part of my mistake in the situation, but it was like a punch in the gut because I thought I had this trust for 12 years…” The ex-wife met the man she had an affair with, Greg Jernigan, when she was deployed to work with him in 2016. By the time when she was deployed she was a first year educator, when she gave him a ride one day they started becoming close friends and their friendship then started being romantic.
When the ex-husband discovered about the relationship between the two of them, he approached Julie George and she told the truth, which ended up in them separating. The ‘Washington Post’ reports that the ex-husband sued the fellow worker for millions because he was the third part that destroyed a home and detachment of endearment as he caused the loss of endearment between the couple. The man was also sued for criminal conversation by having sexual relations with his spouse. The court acted in the favour of Robert Howard, which got him a judgement of about R11 million.
The man was set to pay the money within a certain time period or it will reflect as debt due and be seen on his credit report. “I leave the sustainability of their continued existence as the subject of consideration for another day…the continued existence of the claim against a third party, based on adultery, for the patrimonial harm suffered by the innocent spouse through the loss of consortium of the adulterous spouse, which would include, for example, the loss of supervision over the household and children,” noted the judge on the case.
by Alexandra Ramaite
