Earlier this month, I wrote a blog called Court’s Should Not Issue FROs to Address Parenting Issues. That blogged addressed a case where the trial court entered a Final Restraining
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Can a Bad Social Media Post Lead to a Final Restraining Order?
Social media has become a prevalent part of people’s lives. Many people post about how great their life is or about the good things that their children do (guilty as…
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Going back more than three decades, there are Appellate Division cases that offer caution about the abuse of the domestic violence statute to get a leg up in an impending…
Continue Reading Courts Should Not Issue FROs To Address Parenting IssueA Big Win for Get Advocates as Appellate Division Rules that Publicizing Get Refusal Protected by First Amendment
In what has been touted as a monumental victory for Agunot in New Jersey, yesterday, the Appellate Division released a decision stating that a video publicizing a husband’s Get refusal…
Continue Reading A Big Win for Get Advocates as Appellate Division Rules that Publicizing Get Refusal Protected by First AmendmentNew Jersey Appellate Division Examines the Meaning of “Dating Relationship” in Domestic Violence Cases.
I have written about the requirements of obtaining a domestic violence final restraining order (“FRO”) under the New Jersey Prevention Against Domestic Violence Act (“the Act”) previously on this blog. …
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New Appellate Division Decision Outlines Procedures for Reconstructing the Record in DV Cases
The Appellate Division recently issued a published (precedential) decision in the matter of G.M. v. C.V. providing some clarification on procedures that must be followed when a transcript is not…
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