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Costly adultery

BALTIMORE — A Maryland appeals court upheld the $7 million penalty for adultery contained in a couple's post-nuptial agreement, which the husband must pay because he consented to the agreement and suggested the penalty himself as a show of good faith before violating the adultery provision.

Read the ruling here.

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