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I don't understand how something like this can happen. Marriage is a legal contract with obligations. The most important obligation of both parties is to be faithful. If you cheat then you've broken the contract in the worst possible way and the other party owes you absolutely nothing. Doesn't matter whether you're male or female.
What this ruling is saying is that if you can marry someone who's rich, then you have it made for life regardless of how selfishly, hurftully, and destructively you behave.
If someone admits to cheating in a marriage then it should be essentially automatic that the spouse can divorce and pay nothing, perhaps other than some state-fixed amount that doesn't depend on the total value of the assets. There's simply no reason why this person needs $24 million.
Unemployment benefits are around $1K per month, and they last for less than a year in most states. That sounds about right for a divorce settlement in a case like this. Why would she need any more than that, if nobody else who loses their job gets any more than that?
If that's not enough for her, well then tough. She should have thought about that sooner.
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