noun
- a person named in a divorce case as having committed adultery with the married person being divorced
Usage: legal
Examples
- The husband named his wife’s colleague as corespondent in the divorce proceedings.
- She was cited as corespondent in the high-profile divorce case.
- The court required testimony from the corespondent.
- Legal documents identified him as the corespondent in the adultery case.
- The corespondent’s lawyer argued there was insufficient evidence.
- Naming a corespondent was once common in fault-based divorce cases.