Separated? Have that affair

A law that takes effect Thursday clarifies that a person can't sue for an affair that starts when the marriage is all but over.

The state's alienation of affection and criminal conversation laws allow a jilted person to sue his or her spouse's lover for interfering with the marriage. The law can make for an awkward situation when couples separate, as they are required to do before they divorce because the couple is still married and the prohibition against affairs is still in play.

But the new law states that if a couple is separated and on its way to divorce, extra-marital relationships that begin after the separation are off limits for lawsuits.

Dome wonders if Thursday will be a big date night.

Update: Post clarifies who sues whom in these lawsuits.