Sentences with phrase «testifying against her husband»

The battle against Mormon polygamy continued while Taylor was underground, with 1887's Edmunds - Tucker Act forcing women to testify against their husbands, requiring anti-polygamy oaths and laying the groundwork for the U.S. government to seize high - value church properties, including temples.

Caught up somewhere in the middle of all this is Amos, who enters into an affair with the distraught Diana (who cozies up to him at a community Bible study), perhaps because she's really into him, perhaps because she's trying to prevent him from testifying against her husband, or perhaps because the screenplay needs for this to happen in order to fulfill its thesis that all of us make bad decisions and that the truth will eventually set us free.

Then a fake Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) beeps in for Cohen to ask if a wife would have to testify against her husband were he accused of a crime.

Not exact matches

Into this ménage enters Humpty's daughter Carolina (Juno Temple, pictured below), on the run from her hoodlum husband, having testified against the mob to the police.

Did wife waive her 5th Amendment privilege against testifying about her adultery and was husband's stock purchase agreement properly classified as hybrid property?

In fact, there are laws in place that govern spousal privilege: in many cases, your wife or husband can not be forced to testify against you.

Ask any innocent person who has been deposed, or subpoenaed to produce private documents, or required to testify in court as part of someone else's legal problems — just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time (Currently, a friend is going through a divorce, and the husband's attorney has subpoenaed all sorts of family, friends, former employers, and ex-boyfriends of over 10 years to testify against the wife, and to produce certain documents and records.