A new client has hired the firm with an eye to filing a divorce. The primary reason
Question:
A new client has hired the firm with an eye to filing a divorce. The primary reason for a divorce involves the blatant infidelities of the client's spouse. Although the client has tried to file a complaint for adultery against the spouse, the local prosecutor has claimed that more pressing crimes demanded attention. But one of the lawyers in the firm remembers that an obscure tort corresponds to the crime of adultery. a. What steps will you take to find out what that obscure tort is, using Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, or Loislaw? b. What are the elemen of the tort; that is, what will the lawyer need to show, by a preponderance of evidence, to win a civil suit based on that obscure tort? c. what steps will you take to find out whether your jurisdiction has enacted a heart balm statute, using Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, or Loislaw? d. What did you discover in that sear about such a statute?