Judge Grants Jenny Sanford a Divorce from Cheating Gov. Mark Sanford

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Judge Grants Jenny Sanford a Divorce from Cheating Gov. Mark Sanford

A family court judge granted a divorce today to Jenny Sanford, the wife of philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

The court agreed with Jenny Sanford's request to seal the divorce settlement because there were many details included in the agreement that her young children were not aware of.

The divorce was approved after Jenny Sanford testified today in family court in Charleston that her husband referred to his mistress as his "soul mate" and requested time and time again to be permitted to see her.

Source: ABCNews.com

Congressman Mark Sanford wrote on Facebook that the stress of ongoing battles in his divorce from Jenny Sanford has led to the end of engagement to Maria Belen Chapur.

"No relationship can stand forever this tension of being forced to pick between the one you love and your own son or daughter, and for this reason Belen and I have decided to call off the engagement," Sanford wrote in a 2,300-word post Friday. "Maybe there will be another chapter when waters calm with Jenny, but at this point the environment is not conducive to building anything given no one would want to be caught in the middle of what’s now happening."

The Sanfords are scheduled to go to court Monday in Charleston on a request to seal the latest requests that Jenny Sanford in their divorce settlement including that the congressman receive psychiatric evaluations.

Source: TheState.com

Jenny Sanford filed for divorce on Friday from her husband, Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who confessed in June to an affair with a woman in Argentina.

“As so many of us know, the dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process,” Ms. Sanford said in a statement. “Because Mark and I are public figures, we have naturally had less privacy with which to deal with our difficulties than do other couples. Indeed, I know it will soon become known, so I choose to release this brief notice that I am now filing for divorce.”

The Sanfords have been separated since shortly after he admitted the affair in a teary-eyed news conference. Although Ms. Sanford has been living at the family’s beach house on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., with her four sons, the Sanfords have said publicly that they hoped to salvage the marriage. As recently as Thursday, Mr. Sanford told reporters that he wanted to remain married.

Source: New York Times

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