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A man was awarded $950,000, later reduced to $400,000, in a 2002 case in which a South Dakota jury ruled that an orthopedic surgeon from Las Vegas had enticed the man's wife into an affair and had broken up their marriage.cite-ref-1-28-1[28]

On 2007 it was ruled defenders in cases of alienation of affection were not entitled to be covered by their insurances, as this is an intentional tort.cite-ref-29[29]cite-ref-30[30]

Punitive damages are limited to 20% of the defendant's worth.cite-ref-0-9-2[9]

Both in 1983 and eight years later in 1991, the Utah Supreme Court confirmed the legality of such claims, although Justice Christine M. Durham dissented in both cases, describing alienation of affection as "an anachronistic holdover from a bygone era, which modern rationalizations have failed to justify." However, in the 1991 ruling, they disallowed criminal conversation claimscite-ref-31[31] The same court confirmed alienation of affections as a cause of action in 2002.cite-ref-32[32]

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