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Divorce lawyers are smiling today
Ashley Madison Hack Would Mean 'Boon for Divorce Lawyers and Marriage Therapists'
As financial experts weigh in on what it might mean if hackers deliver on their threats to expose the 37 million users of online cheating site AshleyMadison.com, relationship and legal experts contemplate what it might mean for marriages — and the end of them.
Despite some lawyer’s predictions, New York City divorce attorney Morghan Richardson does not expect a mass-exposure of Ashley Madison members to lead to a rush of divorces, as “everyone deals with infidelity differently.” Also, she calls notions that proof of an affair means a better settlement “a notion from the 1950s,” as no-fault divorce reigns in the majority of states. With rare exception, judges simply don’t care why you and your spouse are splitting up.
“There is a real cultural disparity between what people expect will happen in court in the case of infidelity, and what actually happens,” says Richardson. “ The ‘victim’ of cheating believes that what happened to them is the worst of the worst. They instinctually believe that they will go to court and the judge will let their husband or wife have it. But when they get to court, the judge has no interest in the salacious details of your marriage. To them, it’s just another marriage that didn’t work out.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmajohnson/2015/07/20/ashley-madison-hack-would-mean-boon-for-divorce-lawyers-and-marriage-therapists/
As financial experts weigh in on what it might mean if hackers deliver on their threats to expose the 37 million users of online cheating site AshleyMadison.com, relationship and legal experts contemplate what it might mean for marriages — and the end of them.
Despite some lawyer’s predictions, New York City divorce attorney Morghan Richardson does not expect a mass-exposure of Ashley Madison members to lead to a rush of divorces, as “everyone deals with infidelity differently.” Also, she calls notions that proof of an affair means a better settlement “a notion from the 1950s,” as no-fault divorce reigns in the majority of states. With rare exception, judges simply don’t care why you and your spouse are splitting up.
“There is a real cultural disparity between what people expect will happen in court in the case of infidelity, and what actually happens,” says Richardson. “ The ‘victim’ of cheating believes that what happened to them is the worst of the worst. They instinctually believe that they will go to court and the judge will let their husband or wife have it. But when they get to court, the judge has no interest in the salacious details of your marriage. To them, it’s just another marriage that didn’t work out.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmajohnson/2015/07/20/ashley-madison-hack-would-mean-boon-for-divorce-lawyers-and-marriage-therapists/
Lots of happy divorce lawyers and nervous Ashley Madison clients today......
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