The practice of family law is difficult. I have read that divorce ranks just below the death of a parent or child in terms of grief. The cases are often
Continue Reading Appellate Division Says Disparagement of Counsel and Threats of Sanctions is Improper Judicial Behavior! You Think?
We have written a lot about termination of alimony based upon cohabitation, both before the 2014 Amendment to the alimony statute making it easier, and after the Supreme Court’s decision
Continue Reading Alimony Terminated for Cohabitation Without a Hearing Because Recipient Refused to Cooperate with Discovery About Her Finances
20 year marriages warrant open durational alimony
Continue Reading Yes, A 29 Year Marriage Warrants Open Durational Alimony
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 Issue
Despite the Appellate Division decision in the Temple case in 2021 that seemingly made it easier to show a prima facie case of cohabitation necessary to get discovery and perhaps
Continue Reading Supreme Court Decides Cardali – Prima Facie Case of Cohabitation Now Easier to Show
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
Continue Reading Premarital Cats Treated as Property
Over the years, I have written a lot on palimony cases, both before and after the landmark Maeker v. Ross case that I argued in the New Jersey Supreme
Continue Reading Appellate Division Applies Moynihan Palimony Decision Retroactively
Seems pretty obvious that if a court is going to explain the ramifications of the right to have counsel in a domestic violence matter and the ramifications of the entry
Continue Reading Right to Counsel and Notice of Consequences of a Domestic Violence Finding is Required Before – Not After- the Finding
The Family Court in New Jersey is a court of equity. Accordingly, old, if not ancient “equitable principles” or maxims are supposed to apply. One such maxim is that he
Continue Reading Like the Lochness Monster – A Rare Doctrine of Unclean Hands “Citing”
I saw an article this morning about people who brought their digital platform to prepare prenups to the show Shark Tank. I haven’t viewed their site and have no idea
Continue Reading A Website for Prenups -Good Use of Technology or a Recipe for Disaster?