Decisions made to have a physical affair will have an effect on the divorce proceedings, spousal support, and sometimes custody. 

In our experience, emotional affairs carry many of the same consequences of physical affairs and occasionally feel more insidious than the actual affair.

We discuss many of the "why's?" that lead up to an affair. 

Is the statement, "Once a cheater, always a cheater" true? 

What is surprising to many people is that in NC it is actually a crime to have an affair.  It's fornication and adultery under the criminal statutes which is a class two felony that doesn't just apply to adultery. It's any adults not married to each other who shall lewdly and lavishly associate, bed, and cohabitate together, They're guilty of a class, two misdemeanors.

This is why we advise our clients to plead the fifth on related questions when in court.

We talk about what evidence we need to collect to prove that an affair happened in a court of law. The answers may surprise you: inclination and opportunity.

We get into the details of the financial repercussions of an affair, who gets awarded what in court, what gets awarded to dependent spouses, custody of children in an affair, and the use of private investigators. We will be joined by a private investigator in the next episode.

We talk about the role of forgiveness in an affair and what that means legally should you get divorced sometime in the future.

NC is one of the few states, six states, that have alienation of affection which is a legal means to sue the paramour (person who was the other person in an affair) If you can to show that you had a loving and strong marriage and this person came in and destroyed that relationship then you can sue them for damages for destroying that relationship.