In most states, the biggest risk for hanky-panky with someone’s spouse is a sock on the jaw and society’s disapproving eye. But North Carolina, along with five other states nationwide, still has laws ...

A man or woman scorned may understandably want revenge. And in some states, aggrieved exes can take alleged spouse-stealers ...

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore no longer faces legal allegations that he destroyed another man’s marriage or traded sex for political favors. Scott Lassiter, a former Apex town councilman, ...

File photo of Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland — speaker of the North Carolina House — in his office at the NCGA. An alienation of affection lawsuit filed this week against Rep. Tim Moore — North ...

GRAHAM — Marriage is complicated in America: a sacred institution and a bond entered into with little more than two signatures, and a ceremony sometimes broken in a matter of months in what is almost ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore is being sued by a former government official over an affair he reportedly had with the official's wife. According to court ...

NFL star Steve Smith Sr. is facing an alienation of affection lawsuit following allegations he had an affair with a married man’s wife. What does that mean? North Carolina is one of the few states ...

In most states, carrying on with somebody’s spouse runs the risk of a knuckle sandwich and a stern tsk tsk. But in North Carolina, philandering with the legally wed carries the additional danger of a ...

A lawyer for the man suing NC House Speaker Tim Moore for an alleged affair with his wife says the lawsuit, filed under the state's "alienation of affection" statute, has been resolved. She did not ...