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IS IT LEGAL TO INFORM A HUSBAND THAT HIS WIFE
HAS BEEN CHEATING?
Introduction
Infidelity or adultery in simple terms is when a
married man or woman engages in sexual activity
with a person other than their marital spouse,
marriages and homes, infidelity is illegal in
some countries, namely in Muslim states, in many
cultures it is looked upon as a grave offense,
it has been a time old taboo, which continues to
wreck several marriages and homes.
Why do people cheat?
Reasons for cheating are vast and more often do
not have a rhyme or reason, there are however
some issues that do drive people to cheat and
can surely be highlighted, if a person is in a
frustrating marriage, and there is no harmony,
they tend to look for peace in the arms of
another individual, if one of them especially
the man cannot procreate, and the other so
desperately wants to have children, some are sex
addicts, they are sick and cannot help it, while
others simply have insatiable lust in them.
Why should the truth come out?
The truth shall set us free, these words have a
heavy relevance, although finding out that a
loved one has been lying to you is not easy and
probably the last thing you want to do, it would
be of great significance to your life if at all
you did, so its necessary to ease your mind, to
get closure and focus on more important things
in your life, another reason is so you can have
reasonable grounds to file for a divorce, but
the most important should be to self examine and
to get your life into perspective, rather than
live your life miserably and end up despising
yourself, it should be a step towards progress.
There are legal outcomes surrounding adultery,
especially when divorce is involved, it can be a
basis for divorce, property settlement and can
even have an effect on the children's status, if
any. However it is not clear whether the means
used to obtain knowledge of infidelity are
regarded, for example if a husband hires a
private investigator to follow up on his wife,
he very well might be breeching her
constitutional right to privacy, this might
count for something should the wife would choose
to sue. Therefore with an issue weighing with
such gravity, and with such dire outcome, it
would only be right to say informing a husband
about his wife's infidelity would assist a legal
process such as divorce, and probably isn't
illegal to do so.
Conclusion
Countries differ in the way their jurisdiction
handles infidelity and divorce, but if we put it
in a crude manner, a person has a right to life,
and if a spouse exposes their life to danger
with their infidelity e.g. exposing them to
dangerous diseases such as HIV/AIDS, then the
concerned party has every right to know, there
shouldn't be anything illegal about it, if
anything it should be a way to protect a persons
constitutional rights.
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