New Jersey took a step toward revamping its grounds for divorce for the first time in 35 years when on October 23 the Assembly Judiciary Committee approved adding “irreconcilable differences” as a cause of action for divorce.
This week’s New Jersey Legal Update podcast will discuss the October 25, 2006 landmark decision of Lewis v. Harris. This podcast will give a brief summary of the case, and what the court’s decision means for the future of marriage in the state of New Jersey.
Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its opinion which gave the State legislature 180 days to either amend the marriage statutes or enact an appropriate statutory structure which will allow same-sex couples to exercise their full constitutional rights.
If national census data is extrapolated to New Jersey, there are as many as 7,700 children being raised by same-sex couples in the Garden State. What happens if the couple decides to separate or terminate their domestic partnership?
The Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics released an Opinion which serves notice that an attorney who advises a client to contact other lawyers for the purpose of denying their spouse from obtaining representation by counsel of his or her choice constitutes conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.
This week’s New Jersey Legal Update podcast discusses the case of Lewis v. Harris which was argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court last week. This case brings a long history with it to the Court and is being watched nationally as a case which may direct how courts view legislation which bans same-sex marriage.
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that family court judges have the discretion to order the sale of marital assets prior to a final judgment of divorce when the circumstances of the case so justify.
The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an application entitled Largess v. Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts, which challenged the constitutional propriety of the Massachusett’s Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriages in that state.
On October 7, 2004, the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to grant direct certification of Lewis v. Harris, a case in which seven same sex couples are seeking to legalize gay marriage.
Mislavsky v. Mislavsky – Court upheld a trial judge’s award of punitive damages for violation of the New Jersey Wiretap Act resulting from one spouse’s recording of a telephone conversation between the other spouse and a third party on the violator’s telephone line.
