Australian Mistress Sues & Wins $100,000 Settlement

This is actually a good law I think to make people think twice before cheating on their spouses:

A CHEATING husband has paid his former lover more than $100,000 under Australia’s new “mistress laws”.

In the first known case of its kind in Victoria, the Melbourne businessman was sued under changes to the Family Law Act – which gives rights to people in de facto relationships and same-sex marriages, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.

Legal experts say the case, prompted by the end of an affair of more than 20 years, will strike fear into the hearts of philanderers nationwide.

The woman, who has not been named for legal reasons, said not only did she deserve the money, but others should follow her lead.

“I gave him the best years of my life,” she said.

“He always told me he would look after me, then he left me. I had committed myself fully to him for all those years and it just came to a dead end.  [Herald-Sun]