And to further bolster your point, she could have cleaned him out with mental cruelty, and in their case he would have deserved surrendering half his estate to her. No, I'm not buying the moment of passion thing. She knew what she was doing, while she was doing it. She should have walked. Her kids wouldn't have the nightmare they do, she would have been well off and to be honest, the floozy he was chasing around probably would have dumped him eventually. Yep, he was a snake in the grass too as far as I'm concerned. What kind of man drives his wife to make a self improvement checklist anyway? But that doesn't mean he deserved to die.