[Editor’s note: This letter was submitted in response to the columns “Abolishing the ‘Crime’ of Adultery: Should Related Civil Fault Statutes Also Be Discarded?”, which the New York Law Journal published on April 23, 2024, and “Adultery, Fault Divorce, and Morals: A Complex Cocktail”, which the New York Law Journal published on May 1, 2024.]

In an article titled “Abolishing the ‘Crime’ of Adultery: Should Related Civil Fault Statutes Also Be Discarded?”, which the New York Law Journal published on April 23, 2024, the authors wrote that “…fault divorce is as dead as the crime of adultery and it is time for the Legislature to do away with the fault grounds for divorce and wipe them out of the statutory scheme.”