KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16 -- A 38-year-old woman must pay RM200,000 in damages to a housewife after the High Court found her responsible for the breakdown of a marriage that lasted five decades.
Justice Evrol Mariette Peters ruled that the 74-year-old husband had committed adultery and ordered him to pay RM205,000 in a lump sum as spousal maintenance to his 72-year-old wife. She also directed the couple's matrimonial assets to be divided equally.
"The evidence, though circumstantial, painted a compelling and coherent narrative of an adulterous relationship between the husband and his mistress," she said in her 72-page judgment, as reported by Free Malaysia Today.
Peters rejected the husband's defence that his erectile dysfunction (ED) made a...