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.
Your son or daughter is divorced or deceased. You do not get along with his/her former spouse, and that spouse is refusing to allow you to see your grandchildren. New Jersey has statute which provides for grandparent visitation.
Until recently, it was impossible to get a divorce in New Jersey without at least one party appearing before a Judge and requesting the divorce. However, despite the new procedure many attorneys still proceed with the standard default divorce procedure.
The equity in a marital residence (defined as the appraised value of the residence minus the existing mortgages and liabilities) is often the largest asset to distribute in a divorce.
Maria Imbalazano, a Shareholder in the Divorce Group, authored the article Mediate or Litigate: Which is Best for Your Divorce Client for the August 2006 New Jersey Law Journal Family Law Supplement.
The article discusses the growing trend of divorce mediation as opposed to traditional litigation. You can read the article here.
There has been a great deal of publicity lately over the Bill recently introduced in the New Jersey Assembly and Senate seeking to add irreconcilable differences as a cause of action for divorce in the State of New Jersey.
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.
In the recent decision of Platt v. Platt, the Appellate court endorsed the practice of “income averaging” for purposes of determining a self-employed divorce litigant’s income in order to calculate alimony and child support.
The New Jersey Appellate Court recently held that “means tested” Social Security Benefits are not considered income in computing child support.
