Catching your spouse on a social networking site with their proverbial “pants down” may have you thinking gotcha! It may leave you feeling that you will hold the upper hand in a divorce proceeding; however, in New Jersey your cheating spouse’s activities will not have an effect on your divorce proceedings. The New Jersey Supreme Court, in the Mani v. Mani case, held that marital fault is irrelevant to alimony except in two narrow instances: cases in which the fault negatively affects the economic status of the parties and cases in which the fault so violates societal norms that continuing the economic bonds between the parties would confound notions of simple justice. So although your spouse may have wronged you it will not give you a sympathetic advantage in the court. But we all are aware that judges are human and they may be sympathetic to your predicament.
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