One of the universal themes in divorce matters is that the court is supposed to try to maintain the status quo while the case is pending. In many cases where
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Marital Lifestyle is the Standard for Pendente Lite Alimony Too
Under the guise of the concept that “it costs more to live in two houses than it does one” or “when parties are living separate, they both can’t continue to
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Can a Judge Add a Savings Component to Alimony and Apply it Retroactively to the Beginning of the Case? Does a Frugal Lifestyle Even Matter?
While the issue of savings being a component of alimony has been around for decades, since the Lombardi case in 2016 (which we previously blogged about), the issue of
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When Should Child Support Start?
Last week, the prolific Judge Lawrence R. Jones, J.S.C. shed some much-needed light on an essential question; namely: can the court retroactively set an obligor’s child support obligation to a
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Imputing Income for Interim Support at the Beginning of a Divorce
The issue of interim support payments comes up in almost every divorce matter. The law requires that the so-called “status quo” that existed during the marriage be maintained to the
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