For decades, cohabitation was grounds to at least get a review of alimony. When the alimony statute was amended in 2014, almost 8 years ago, the revisions made it easier
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For decades, cohabitation was grounds to at least get a review of alimony. When the alimony statute was amended in 2014, almost 8 years ago, the revisions made it easier…
Continue Reading Why Do Judges Keep Wrongly Denying Cohabitation Motions
Six years, nine months and 7 days following the enactment of New Jersey’s amended alimony statute’s cohabitation provision on September 10, 2014 (N.J.S.A. 2A:32-23n) the New Jersey Appellate Division provided…
Continue Reading Appellate Division Defines the Elements a Movant Must Present in Order to Demonstrate a Prima Facie Case of Cohabitation
As we have said before, the 2014 amendments to the alimony statute allegedly made it easier to terminate alimony if the recipient of the alimony was cohabiting. The statute now…
Continue Reading Two Months of Overnights May Not Definitively Mean Cohabitation, But It Should At Least Get You Discovery
For the second time in about a month, the Appellate Division has reversed improvidently granted discovery when there hadn’t been a showing of a change of circumstance. As noted by…
Continue Reading No Prima Facie Showing of Cohabitation = No Right to Discovery to Try to Prove It
In the midst of our ongoing quest for guidance as to how and when to apply the 2014 cohabitation statute, comes the Appellate Division’s recent unpublished (not precedential) decision in…
Continue Reading Appellate Division Issues New Decision on Cohabitation
While we await guidance from the Appellate Division on how to interpret that portion of the amended alimony statute’s cohabitation provision, N.J.S.A. 2A:32-23n, indicating that alimony may be “suspended or…
Continue Reading Appellate Division Denies Cohabitation Claim Under Alimony Statute
Amicably settling your divorce matter is almost always better than taking your chances at a trial before a trial judge who knows almost nothing about your life. Not only can…
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As regular readers of this blog may know, cohabitation has been a hot topic of discussion in recent months with several new cases addressing the subject within and beyond the…
Continue Reading Appellate Division Finds Payor Spouse Fails to Fulfill Initial Burden of Proof on Cohabitation Claim
Suffice it to say, the issue of cohabitation under the amended alimony statute has been a hot topic of late in New Jersey family law. With several recent notable seminars…
Continue Reading Cohabitation Under the Amended Alimony Statute – Are We There Yet?
While the Appellate Division has yet to address the substantive application and meaning of the cohabitation provisions of the amended alimony law, it has now determined twice when the law…
Continue Reading APPELLATE DIVISION FINDS THAT COHABITATION MATTER CANNOT BE REOPENED BASED SOLELY ON CHANGE IN ALIMONY LAW
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