On Thursday, The Italian Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman seeking damages from her ex-husband after failing to tell her he was impotent.

The woman, identified as Cristina S., is charging her husband with denying her "a right to sexuality" and the promise of a family.

Cristina had the marriage annulled in the 1990's after learning her husband was impotent. Over the years, she lost numerous legal battles in lower courts, finally finding favor in The Supreme Court.

"Her fundamental right (was) eroded to fully realize a family, as a woman and a wife, and eventually as a mother," according to excerpts from the court ruling published in Italian newspapers on Thursday.

The amount of damages will be decided by a lower court in Sicily, where the couple originally married.