In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that cheating after signing marriage papers would be illegal in 2026. The claim came from a screenshot, shared widely across social media, that read: ...

On November 22, 2024, New York repealed its 1907 adultery law, which had criminalized adultery as a misdemeanor. This historic change aligns New York with most other states where adultery is no longer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images In May 2025, posts circulated online claiming that cheating on your spouse "after signing marriage papers" would be ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a bill repealing the state’s adultery law. Assemblymember Charles Lavine sponsored the legislation and said the law, which was over a ...

Nov. 22—It's now legal to cheat on your spouse in New York. On Friday, Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul signed a bill repealing a more-than-century old law on the books in New York that made cheating in a ...