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Full transcript by James Nolletti below.
In general, whether or not your spouse had an affair, will not affect your divorce. Although New York was actually the last city in the US to adopt no-fault divorce, the Court views the dissolution of a marriage as the dissolution of an economic partnership. Meaning that it doesn't matter why the dissolution is occurring, only that each partner gets a fair share of the assets and debts.
That being said, if your spouse spent significant amounts of money on a paramour, or if they acted inappropriately with a paramour in front of your children, then a court will take appropriate action to award a bigger portion of the marital assets to the spouse who was cheated on to make up for the marital funds spent on the affair, or to award legal and physical custody to the spouse who was not behaving inappropriately in front of the children.
