20 year marriages warrant open durational alimony
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Courts Should Not Issue FROs To Address Parenting Issue
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
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Supreme Court Decides Cardali – Prima Facie Case of Cohabitation Now Easier to Show
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
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Premarital Cats Treated as Property
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
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Appellate Division Applies Moynihan Palimony Decision Retroactively
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
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Right to Counsel and Notice of Consequences of a Domestic Violence Finding is Required Before – Not After- the Finding
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
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Like the Lochness Monster – A Rare Doctrine of Unclean Hands “Citing”
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
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A Website for Prenups -Good Use of Technology or a Recipe for Disaster?
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
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Is the Prenuptial Agreement Signed after the Wedding Really a Prenuptial Agreement?
I have seen this more than one time in my career. One party (or his/her family members) really wants there to be a prenuptial agreement but, either due to lack
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