If new divorce law passes, Montana is going to have a lot more felons [View all]

[Nevilledog]

https://dailymontanan.com/2023/02/09/if-new-divorce-law-passes-montana-is-going-to-have-a-lot-more-felons/

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Phalen’s adultery police would not only allow, but demand, that judges across the state start examining all the details of the feuding spouses’ most intimate aspects, their sex lives. These bills would mandate courts to hear even more of the lurid details of why marriages are breaking up.

For the divorcing couple, it would risk one of them losing everything at the slightest hint of infidelity; or force couples to stay together in dysfunctional relationships. In these measures, there don’t seem to be any winners, only losers – except for divorce attorneys, who continue to bill by the hour until the court has determined any sexual peccadilloes, if any.

Does the adultery require a physical act, or does jumping on an app or website count? These and more questions may be part of the future of Montana case law, if such an act were to pass.

Assuming that what Phalen is “just sayin’” is what he just means, the courts would then have to figure out how to prosecute the unfaithful spouse as a felon, which would seem to burden an already packed court calendar.

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