Can you sue someone who lied about their identity?

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I was engaged to someone who lied from the time we met about his identity and history. Half of what I was told were truths but the rest were lies. He told me he was single, never married, and no children but I did a search on him and was shocked to find out that he lied about his age and previous marital status. Confronted him many times if he was being truthful with me but always told me he was. This time I had confronted him with my findings and he told me the truth about him and his past. Can someone sue a person for this? I feel betrayed beyond words and feel used.
 
You may sue for fraud, which is misrepresentation using documentation....if someone's just a liar then no, you may not. People lie all the time, how old are you???
 
What great luck to discover this before you married him!He's a loser. You can't sue him for lying, but you can thank him for showing you what a liar he is so you can move on and make a better life for yourself.You have every right to feel betrayed and used!
 
It is not illegal to lie unless you are on the witness stand in court. Sorry but you need to get over it. You think you are the only one in history this has ever happened to?
 
You can only sue on the basis of personal losses. If you suffered financially due to his deceit then you have a legitimate case.
 
No, you can't sue......but you learned a valuable lesson here. Try not to beat yourself up over it - we all have our moments!
 
Not unless you actually suffered damages. The thing with suing someone is that you had to actually have been hurt; physically, financially, etc. Yu would also have to prove that there were damages. Pain and suffering is hard to prove. I would just ignore him and never talk to him again.
 
"Can someone sue a person for this?"I see questions like that a lot here, and the question left unasked is "sue for what?"Civil suits are principally meant to determine if a person's conduct was 1) wrongful and 2) whether it can be redressed using an award of legal damages.There is a cause of action for fraud, but to show it wrongful, you'd need to establish that it was material - that he lied about information in way that was wrongful. Men go to abrs, go to parties, they tell all sorts of lies about themselves - but that's not fraud, not necessarily anyway.You'd also have to show the harm. It might be monetary. It might be something else - emotional distress (although you'd have to submit to examination to determine whther you were so distressed; also, the conduct would have to have been done with that intention - there is virtually no claim for negligent infliction of ED).
 
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