A Hsinchu court has ordered a man to pay compensation for an affair that broke up the family of the employer who had given him a job, a costly outcome for him and a partial win for the husband.

• A Hsinchu company owned by the Chen family hired a man facing criminal and civil cases over a fatal accident, taking him in out of sympathy.
• He then began an affair with the owners' newly married daughter-in-law, who was pregnant at the time.
• The husband sued for NT$1 million after the man taunted him, saying a ruling would not make him pay and that he was living well regardless.
• The court found the marriage and family had been destroyed and awarded NT$400,000 in emotional damages, rejecting the man's offer of NT$300,000 as too low.

Outlook: The award stands unless appealed, and the wife also faces a separate NT$300,000 claim from the man's own spouse.