For decades, when a custodial parent wanted to move out of state, it would not be unusual to hear that if the court or other party won’t let me leave New Jersey, she will just move to Cape May, or some other point far away from North or Central Jersey. When someone wanted to move
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The Inability or Refusal to Settle By the Lawyer, Not the Litigant
By Eric S. Solotoff on
Posted in Practice Issues
In one of the earliest posts I did on this blog going back ten years or more, I posited that you can only really settle when the time is right and when both parties are ready. In fact, I felt then as I feel now, that you can make your best offer, if not an…
The Futility of Parent Coordination When a Parent Coordinator Won’t Be Decisive
I have written many times over the years regarding parent coordination, both during and after the end of the Supreme Court pilot program. A parent coordinator is a person, sometimes a mental health professional and sometimes a lawyer, that is appointed to assist parties in high conflict custody disputes. The description and function of…
New Guidance on the Distribution of Deferred Compensation That Vests Post-Complaint
The issue of the division of deferred compensation in divorce – more particularly, unvested deferred compensation, is often one that is hotly disputed. This is in part because there is not a lot of case law on the issue. The case law is clear that deferred compensation (eg. stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, REUs, etc.)…
Don’t Expect Opposing Counsel To Control the Unreasonable Client
By Eric S. Solotoff on
We have all seen cases where one of the parties is unreasonable if not out of control. I am not talking about taking a hard of aggressive legal position. I am not talking about taking an aggressive if not unreasonable settlement position – at least to start. I am talking about a client that refuses…