It’s illegal to live together after divorce!
September 2nd, 2009That’s right folks. It is illegal in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to continue to live or reside together after a husband and wife (or a same-sex couple) obtains a divorce from the probate and family courts. It is considered adultery and as I wrote a few months back, adultery is illegal in Massachusetts.
In light of the recession and having personally represented couples who continue to live together after they’ve divorced because they simply can’t afford to leave the marital home or sell it, I guess the recession, in addition to making them poor, have also made them criminals!
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Im stumped – by defnition adultery requires that one of the party be married, how then can a divorced couple who have to remain living together be considered guilty of adultery? Have people (such as the clients you alluded to) actually been charged under this law?
As far as I know, no one has gotten charged with this “crime” in recent memory.
If one has filed for divorce can the couple still live together or is it just once the divorce is final?