{"id":555,"date":"2023-04-29T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2023-04-29T14:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:15:34","slug":"divorce-my-husband-cheated-can-we-punish-the-third-party-mistress-with-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/divorce\/divorce-my-husband-cheated-can-we-punish-the-third-party-mistress-with-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"[Divorce] My husband cheated, can we punish the third party (mistress) with the law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/naughtycouplegames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Coupleaffaircounselling.jpg\" alt=\"Nature of peoples have affairs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My husband cheated, can we punish the third party (mistress) with the law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Would it be useful to report to the police?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adultery is not a criminal offense and does not violate the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Can we sue the third party?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">According to Section 58(1) of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you are applying for a divorce in court, you can include the third party in the divorce proceedings and also sue the third party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How will the law punish the third party?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If the court finds that the third party had an affair with your husband, they will have to compensate the wife financially. The maximum amount of compensation is RM100,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What if I don&#8217;t want a divorce?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you do not intend to file for divorce, you cannot include the third party in the divorce proceedings and obtain compensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband cheated, can we punish the third party (mistress) with the law? &nbsp; Would it be useful to report to the police? &nbsp; Adultery is not a criminal offense and does not violate the Criminal Code. &nbsp; Can we sue the third party? &nbsp; According to Section 58(1) of the Law Reform (Marriage and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[113,55,61,60,107,90,59,58,33,50,53,36,51,52,18,54,57,56,112,67,34,109,74,75,72,69,111],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limlawchambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}