Keith Morrison

These people are crazy.

Starring Emmy Award winner Kiki Palmer.

There are a few things you need to know about South Carolina divorce law.

It's designed to be adversarial, and it punishes adultery.

Fault is used to determine the division of assets, the allocation of alimony, the whole ball of wax, really.

But here's the thing.

In South Carolina, the breadwinner, usually the man, pays no alimony at all if he can prove his wife cheated on him.

It makes no difference whether he cheated first or last or longest.

In the eyes of the law, it's the wife's transgression that matters, not demands.

That's the way it was in 2013.

And yes, that's the way it is now.

If you were having an affair, he wouldn't have to pay it.

Oh, yes, Chris made plenty of money, about $650,000 a year.

Nancy was asking for substantial alimony, $7,500 a month.

On paper, that might have looked manageable on Chris's salary, but a bitter pill nonetheless.

But if Chris could prove in court that she cheated, he'd pay nothing.

And yet, Nancy knew a thing or two about her husband's personality and how carefully he guarded his image.

The way Nancy saw it, her husband was more likely to agree to her terms than risk having his reputation for rectitude sullied in open court.

It was at a routine pretrial deposition in the summer of 2012 that Nancy first laid eyes on Wendy Moore.

Wendy was answering questions, questions about documents in the Latham divorce case.