Adultery

The courts have held that "adultery exists when one spouse rejects the other by entering 

into a personal intimate relationship with any other person, irrespective of the specific 

sexual acts performed; the rejection of the spouse coupled with out-of-marriage intimacy 

constitutes adultery.” New Jersey Court Rule 5:4-2 requires that the plaintiff in an 

adultery divorce case, state the name of the person with whom the offending conduct was 

committed. This person is known as the corespondent. If the name is not known, the 

person who files must give as much information as possible tending to describe the 

adulterer.