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Redefining Your Exodus: What Divorcing Couples Can Learn from Arranged Marriages

By Eliana Baer on March 31, 2023

An oldie but a goodie. This blog post was originally published on April 14, 2014. With Passover approaching next week, it is an opportune time to re-share and allow you…

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Premarital Cats Treated as Property

By Eric S. Solotoff on March 30, 2023

From time to time, we have written regarding pet custody, though there is very little case law on the issue. Historically, pets were treated as chattel (property) and courts did…

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Appellate Division Rules That A Court Cannot Compel Arbitration on Get Issue Absent Agreement

By Eliana Baer on February 19, 2023

Get refusal is an issue to which secular courts have yet to find an adequate solution because of constraints implicating freedom of religion and the state’s prohibition against entanglement with…

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Be Prepared for Your Divorce Series: Part IV – Do You Need Experts?

By Jessica Diamond Lia on February 13, 2023

One of the first things that you and your attorney will assess is whether you need any experts for your divorce case.

There are many types of experts that can…

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Trial Court Applies Wrong Retirement Standard to a Pre-2014 Alimony Obligation

By Eric S. Solotoff on February 13, 2023

I still hear people call the 2014 Amendments to the alimony statute “the new statute.” Almost 9 years later, it is no longer new. That said, since that time, there…

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Payment for Gap Year in Israel: How to Draft Marital Settlement Agreements to Ensure it is Paid

By Eliana Baer on February 12, 2023

New Jersey is among the minority of states requiring divorced parents to pay for college tuition on behalf of their children. While there are many criticisms of this particular law…

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How to Make Co-Parenting with a Narcissist Feel Less Like Groundhog Day

By Eliana Baer on February 2, 2023

Co-parenting with a narcissist can feel a whole lot like Groundhog Day. You keep trying to be civil, but you’re met with hostility. You keep trying to solicit answers, but…

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Religious Coercion is Legal Duress

By Eliana Baer on January 27, 2023

Duress has long been considered by New Jersey courts as a cognizable defense where the provision of a Get – defined as a Jewish ecclesiastical divorce – is conditioned upon a…

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Beware Of These Social Media Blunders If You’re Going Through a Divorce

By Eliana Baer on January 19, 2023

It’s 2023. Oversharing on social media is the norm for so many.  And interestingly, social media use upticks as spouses are contemplating divorce.

A 2014 study published in the journal…

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Do I believe in Settlement? Well, It’s Not Like Sasquatch…

By Eliana Baer on January 13, 2023

Recently, I was at a meeting, and the person across the table from me asked me a very thoughtful question: “Do you believe in settlement or is your philosophy to…

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