The lawsuit filed in Durham County Court accused Brenay Kennard – an influencer with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok and 274,000 followers on Instagram – of seducing and having an affair with her manager, Tim Montague.
North Carolina’s alienation of affection law allows a spouse to sue the person they blame for an affair that ends a marriage.
Akira Montague claimed the affair caused her mental anguish, damage to her health and deprived her children of a two-parent household.
The alleged affair played out both in the manager’s home, and on Kennard’s social media, Akira Montague claimed.
Tim Montague eventually left his wife for Kennard.
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https://people.com/tiktoker-ordered-to-pay-husband-ex-wife-1-75-million-for-alienation-of-affection-11847383
You can sue the “seducer” instead of the cheating partner? What?
the way it was explained to me was that the divorce would be how a partner punishes the cheater, the alienation of affection laws were how you went after the other party.
i was also told proceedings were rare, the laws were old, and usually more of something that is used to pursue better divorce terms.
i think originally the patriarchal idea was that if some rich man steals your wife away with his lavish gifts of silk dresses and exotic chocolates, you can get a bite of him on his way out the door, assuming you can prove he knew she was legally married.