Aussie PIs Hope to Keep No-Fault Divorce Precendent

Picture this: a husband so desperate to escape an unhappy marriage that he commits fraud to "expose" himself in an act of infidelity. He hires a prostitute to act as his lover and a private investigator to burst into a motel room and photograph them in flagrante delicto.

Australia's private investigators can recall the boom days of a seedy, sordid business, when a spouse would go to such extremes to get a divorce. Until the arrival of no-fault divorce laws in 1975, a marriage could not be dissolved unless one spouse was found, in effect, to be the guilty party. Commonly it was for adultery, more often for desertion. Otherwise cruelty, drunkenness, imprisonment or insanity might be grounds for divorce.

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Is Infidelity Genetic?

Philanderers -- both male and female -- are as old as the hills, or at the very least as old as Shakespeare, who astutely wrote: "Love is not love/which alters when it alteration finds/or bends with the remover to remove." In more recent times, the sanctity of marriage has faced the double threat of the internet and mobile phone technology. Yet, according to author Tess Stimson, nothing poses more of a deadly menace to a marriage than the modern, liberated girl's way of thinking.

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