She cheats on her husband with her colleagues, the judge takes away the house he had given her

A betrayal with more than one colleague, discovered after three years, and a house worth 250 thousand euros donated to his wife which will now have to be returned. This is the story that ended up before the Civil Court of Verona, where judge Biancamaria Biondo ordered the revocation of the donation of an apartment in the province of Verona, accepting the appeal presented by a head doctor of a nursing home in Mantua.

The story - told by Corriere della Sera - dates back to Christmas 2018, when during a company dinner the wife of a doctor publicly accused a nurse of having an affair with her husband. The woman under accusation was married to the doctor, who only became aware of the facts at the beginning of 2022. After the separation and divorce, the doctor started a lawsuit to obtain the return of the property, donated to his wife in 2021.

The basis of the request is not simple betrayal, but what the doctor defined as a "serious offense" to one's honour, decorum and dignity. The woman's extramarital affairs, which over time became three, were in fact consummated in the working environment, involving other colleagues. A circumstance that the court deemed sufficient to accept the request for revocation: the apartment will therefore have to return to the doctor who purchased it.

The "serious insult" towards her husband

With the ruling of 7 October 2026, the Verona court ordered the revocation of the donation based on article 801 of the Civil Code, which provides for this possibility in the event of "serious injury" towards the man who made the gift.

The judges specified that betrayal, alone, is not enough to justify the restitution of a property. In this case, however, several elements made the difference: the repeated extramarital affairs, kept hidden at the time of the donation, the meetings with the lovers in the same house received as a gift and the fact that the affair had become common knowledge among the husband's colleagues. A behavior that the court deemed "seriously harmful" to the honor and dignity of the professional. In addition to the restitution of the property, the woman will also have to pay the legal costs.

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