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## Transcript

The hackers, identified as Impact Team, released the private information of nearly 40 million users of cheating site, Ashley Madison. Now if you're like us, you might think divorce lawyers are about to have a field day with this leak, but there are some caveats there. The U. S. has no fault divorces, and fault divorces, and information from the leak is only useful for the latter. And only if the accusing party could prove their spouse cheated. For example where I practice in Pennsylvania, for adultery you have to prove sexual intercourse. That is a tall order to fill usually to prove in a court of law.

Seeing somebody's spouse on the website they can sue and say that they, You wouldn't even have proof of adultery. Impact teams nearly ten gigabyte data dump reportedly includes names, e- mail addresses, phone numbers, descriptions of what users are looking for, and credit card information, but none of that proves married users on the site actually went through with the affair. Still, adultery isn't the only grounds for divorce and information from the website could help spouses prove marital misconduct in other ways. Another attorney tells CNBC in many courts extramarital affairs only matter if a person has spent money shared between spouses On non- marriage activities.

She says the $ 19 fee that the spouse spent on the 'Full Delete' service for the Ashley Madison site will be considered marital waste ( as would any other monies spent on the site and the monies spent on the hotels, etc .), and that would be a credit back to the marital pot. But $ 19 hardly sounds worth the hassle when just filing for divorce could cost hundreds of dollars. Ashley Madison said in a statement, " We will continue to put forth substantial efforts into removing any information unlawfully released to the public, as well as continuing to operate our business ."

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