Moral Damages: Unfaithful Wife To Pay $250k

Moral Damages: Unfaithful Wife To Pay $250k Dated:19 Feb 2009, 0038 hrs IST, Source: AGENCIES Text: A woman in Spain has been ordered by the court to pay $250,500 in “moral damages” for the suffering caused to her husband by her illicit affair, reports the Times. The woman, who had three children by her lover, pretended for years that they were fathered by her husband, according to reports. After years of suspecting his of infidelity, the husband who can’t be named, finally discovered she had kept a lover for six of the fourteen years the couple had been together. DNA tests showed that three of their four children had been fathered by the other man, the Times reports. The husband then took his wife to court, demanding compensation. The court in Valencia, Spain, ordered her to pay $125,350 for the suffering she caused him. She fought the ruling, but the supreme court has upheld it, and doubled the damages to $250,500. Judges said that the compensation should be “higher than if the children had been killed in an accident”. The wife was judged to have “acted negligently in the conception of her children”, and the concealment of the truth “only added to the pain caused to the husband” who should be compensated correctly. In her defence, the woman told the court her extramarital activities had been “passionate and irregular” and blamed her husband for being cold, unfaithful and disinterested in the children. The husband has since begun an appeal for additional compensation for “physical and psychological damage” suffered at the hands of his wife and her lover.

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