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the circle you will pay one way or the other  you pay if you get it, and pay if you don't get it !!!! ( from news) It sounds like the opening line of a joke: French wife sues her ex-husband over his refusal to, uh, perform during their marriage. But the widely publicized lack-of-passion lawsuit raises the question: How much is marital sex worth? The 51-year-old ex-husband was ordered to pay the equivalent of about $15,000 by a judge in Nice, southern France, for not getting busy in the bedroom with his 47-year-old spouse for the 21 years of their marriage, according to the British paper The Telegraph. However, suing a spouse, or an ex-spouse, for monetary damages is rare, and success rarer still. In 2004, a Spanish man tried it when his wife shut him out for five days and a judge tossed the case. Even so, sex, or rather than absence of sex, finds its way into lawsuits all the time. In the U.S. denial of sex is not usually spelled out in divorce codes, though “mental cruelty” fits the bill. Oklahoma has a provision for “gross neglect of duty.” In some states, plaintiffs can charge the defendant spouse with “impotence” and collect settlements. Other states specify that the impotence had to have been present before the marriage, a provision that harkens back to the days when people pretended not to have had sex before the wedding day. More often, third parties are sued for causing “loss of consortium.” That does not always mean just sex -- it could mean hubby can no longer mow the lawn -- but generally that’s just a nice way of saying a spouse longer performs up to par, or at all. In New York State, a wife sued a local town after her husband shattered his elbow tripping on a damaged sidewalk. She won $85,000 for loss of consortium, which sort of makes you wonder just how integral his elbow was to their “consortium.” ( end news) guess its safer to buy it one day at a time,... |
