I find it interesting how Spain has a different view of Family Law - an article from The Times:
"Adultery can be a costly business, as one Spanish woman found out when the Supreme Court confirmed the ruling of a lower court and doubled the amount of “moral damages” she had been ordered to pay to her cuckolded husband.
The woman, who conceived three children by her lover, had pretended for years that they were fathered by her husband. Neither man can be named, in terms of a court order to protect the identities of the children.
In 2001, after years of suspecting that his second wife might be unfaithful, the unfortunate husband finally discovered the truth: she had kept a secret lover for six of the fourteen years the couple had been together. Worse was to come when DNA tests showed that three of their four children had been fathered by the lover. At that point the husband took his wife to court, demanding compensation.
The court in Valencia, southeastern Spain, ordered her to pay €100,000 for the suffering she had caused her husband.
She decided to fight the decision, but judges at the Supreme Court not only agreed with the lower court but ruled that the original penalty was “insufficient and unjust”.
The fine was doubled, meaning that she must now pay her husband €200,000 as recompense for her years of illicit passion.
Commenting on the case, judges said that the compensation should be “higher than if the children had been killed in an accident”.
The cheating 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.
By way of a defence, the woman told the Supreme Court that her extramarital activities had been “passionate and irregular”.
She said that her estranged husband had been cold, unfaithful, distant and uninterested in caring for the family. The court ruled that her claims were not credible.
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. He is also determined that she pays for the cost of the DNA tests that revealed that he was not the father of three of their children."
"Adultery can be a costly business, as one Spanish woman found out when the Supreme Court confirmed the ruling of a lower court and doubled the amount of “moral damages” she had been ordered to pay to her cuckolded husband.
The woman, who conceived three children by her lover, had pretended for years that they were fathered by her husband. Neither man can be named, in terms of a court order to protect the identities of the children.
In 2001, after years of suspecting that his second wife might be unfaithful, the unfortunate husband finally discovered the truth: she had kept a secret lover for six of the fourteen years the couple had been together. Worse was to come when DNA tests showed that three of their four children had been fathered by the lover. At that point the husband took his wife to court, demanding compensation.
The court in Valencia, southeastern Spain, ordered her to pay €100,000 for the suffering she had caused her husband.
She decided to fight the decision, but judges at the Supreme Court not only agreed with the lower court but ruled that the original penalty was “insufficient and unjust”.
The fine was doubled, meaning that she must now pay her husband €200,000 as recompense for her years of illicit passion.
Commenting on the case, judges said that the compensation should be “higher than if the children had been killed in an accident”.
The cheating 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.
By way of a defence, the woman told the Supreme Court that her extramarital activities had been “passionate and irregular”.
She said that her estranged husband had been cold, unfaithful, distant and uninterested in caring for the family. The court ruled that her claims were not credible.
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. He is also determined that she pays for the cost of the DNA tests that revealed that he was not the father of three of their children."
