Robert Roeschlein Professor Presnell English 1102 23 March 2014 Legality of Infidelity: Evaluative Work Cited Drash, Wayne.

Beware Cheaters: Your lovers spouse can sue you. CNN Living. 8 December 2009. Print. http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/12/08/cheating.spouses.lawsuits/ This article talks about the alienation of affection lawsuit and how the scandal of Tiger Woods cheating on his wife, may lead to an increase in this lawsuit being used. Within certain states (NC included), if someone is married and their spouse cheats on them, they can take the paramour to court and sue them for interfering with a marriage. Such lawsuits can sue for up to $1million. Such a lawsuit has caused trouble in the past with divorcees having other relationships before the divorce is finalized, yet it has never gain so much recognition since rumors that Woods wife may sue. Wayne Drash is an author and journalist who have been writing articles for CNN since 2004, leaving him with 5 years of experience at CNN before writing this article. After reading this, it became one of my number one sources to use for my inquiry essay. It clarifies the states that still have realistic and used penalties for infidelity and which ones take adultery the most serious. Furthermore, I learned a

lot about this lawsuit and, with mild objections, believe that penalties like this one should exist for those who cheat in marriage. Bill to repeal of Colorado adultery law signed. The Denver Post Politics. 22 March 2013. Print. http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_22850726/bill-repeal-coloadultery-law-signed This article talks about how adultery is illegal and the penalties that are applied if caught cheating. Although this law is never enforced, it shows how serious such an offense was at one time and mentions that such laws are common within 23 other states across the country. It also went into detail about how the state congress plans on repealing the bill, with many politicians and scholars believing it is not the governments job to interfere with personal relations. Meanwhile, many others agree with such line of thinking but believe that repealing a bill would be supporting adultery and would contribute to the erosion of morality within the state. The bill failed to be repealed. The writer of the article was anonymous, however the source itself is a trusted media company that began printing newspapers in 1892 and has since become Denvers largest local newspaper. This article gave me insight on the general legality status of infidelity across the U.S. and showed me what penalties were applied. I learned a great deal about Americas history and the governments views on infidelity, especially with the western states. It also showed me many peoples views on the government being legally involved with adultery and how many politicians and scholars see such involvement as pointless.

Cabarrus County, NC. County Department Directory. Marriage License Requirements. Cabarrus County; 2014. Web. http://www.cabarruscounty.us/government/departments/registerdeeds/Pages/Marriage-License-Requirements.aspx This website lists out the requirements for marriage licenses and how one is to acquire a license within Cabarrus County. The website provides a step by step process in the present day of what people do within the county to get married and why it is so important to get a license. It elaborates briefly on how marriage licenses are similar to government contracts. Of all my sources, this proves to be the most reliable as it is a government made website. It is hosted and represents Cabarrus County, NC and is run by the County Department Directory. The website helped me prove my point in that a marriage license is a government contract. This way, it is easier to logically conclude that the government should protect its contracts and increase legal penalties for infidelity. Deen, Thalif. Adultery Laws Unfairly Target Women, UN Says.Inter Press Services. 23 March 2014. Print. http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/adultery-laws-unfairly-target-women-un-says/ This article from the Inter Press Service talks of the adultery laws within the Middle East and the penalties involved with them, along with how much they are actually used. It continues on by stating that these adultery laws have the opposite result of what I was trying to see. Instead of fairly penalizing all those who are found

cheating, it simply targets women and the laws have allowed for abuse and corruption to taint these laws within certain countries. The author Thalif Deen appears to be quite reliable, as she has been a journal for Inter Press Services for two years, and has a long background of journalism and writing articles within local media companies within Eastern Europe. This article benefits me by showing how adultery laws in multiple countries within the Middle East are not viewed as a good thing to women within the countries and outsiders as well. It gave me a glimpse of how certain foreign countries treat adultery, as harsh as they maybe. Marriage and divorce statistics. European Commission; Eurostats. 2002. Print. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Marriage_a nd_divorce_statistics The Eurostats webpage on the European Commission website is a compilation of government recorded and research study statistics on divorce rates all over Europe and even begin comparing these rates with the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These statistics consist of marriage and divorce rates, major reasons for divorce and why marriage is beginning to become irrelevant in European society. The writers of this webpage are anonymous and may be from multiples of up to ten or more writers who contributed to this page. Although it shares a Wikipedia like formatting, I found the sources that were cited to be interesting and quite accurate. However, I decided to place this webpage as one of my top five sources

due to it being a summary of multiple sources that have been backed up and may also be used in my inquiry paper. This webpage is helpful in the since that it is talking about European marriages and compares the statistics to the U.S. It is also helpful because it shows as a possible prediction of the future of how marriage and divorce rates will be due to Americas tendency to lag behind Europe on a social level.