Do same sex affairs count? A divorce was granted to a woman in Vancouver, Canada today after a judge decided that her husband’s affair with another man counted as adultery, which served as grounds for divorce. Click here to read an article about this.

The judge had to modify the traditional definition of adultery known in the courts as:  voluntary sex between a spouse and someone of the opposite sex, to whom the person is not married.

North Carolina is one of seven states that still allow lawsuits over adultery under the alienation of affection and criminal conversation (sexual intercourse between a defendant and the plaintiff’s spouse) laws.  Recently, a woman in Durham, NC sued her husband’s gay lover accusing him of stealing her husband from her.  Same-sex alienation of affection cases are very rare.

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