Good to be back in Seattle and I wanted to share an article about divorce, it is quite eye opening in fact…This is an amazing story, just too surprising to resist. The story is about a judge in Nice, France, who ruled that the legal code that states married couples must consent to a “shared communal life,” implied that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage.” Divorce rates seem to be going up lately in this country… Wow, there are a lot of women who’d be in trouble in this country if the laws and U.S. judges were aligned with their French counterparts in Nice.
The story appeared on the New York Daily News website, under the World section. The piece was written by Daily News staff writer, Lukas I. Alpert, under the headline, “51-year-old Frenchman ordered to pay ex-wife $14,000 for lack of sex.” It was posted September 5, 2011. Incidentially if you happen to be in Seattle, Washington and are looking out for a Seattle divorce attorney who also does other similar form sof law such as family law this one may be for you and, this attorney also does for that matter Bellevue DUI plus criminal defense cases.
Alpert writes that the 47-year-old wife demanded 10,000 Euros in recompense for “lack of sex” during her twenty-year marriage. He adds that, “The ex-husband – identified in court papers only as Jean-Louis B. – blamed “tiredness and health problems” for his failure to perform.” Alpert quotes the judge as saying, “A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection….”
This really does not seem unfair to the husband on the face of it. Who knows what ailments he suffered from? And why did she hang around for twenty years if she was so dissatisfied? Furthermore, Alpert writes. Of course that is certainly grounds for the divorce overall.