Griffin v. Rice

This case presents one simple issue. Who gets the workers’ compensation money from the estate of the dead Curtis Rice — the loving, nurturing mother of the deceased or the adulterous and absent wife?

The majority opinion today projects this Court into the sordid business of deciding how many times a person must have sex outside of marriage before deemed to be “living in adultery.” In doing so, we place more emphasis on the sex than the marriage. We are also losing sight of the real purpose of the statute. This Court should not have to continually review the sex lives of married couples in…