When entering into divorce agreements or consent orders, say what you mean and mean what you say. That is, unless you want ambiguity to be able to argue multiple interpretations in the future.
Continue Reading When Entering Into Divorce Agreements, Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say – Unless You Just Want to Retain the Ability to Argue Alternate Interpretations in the Future
parties who modify parenting time should put it in writing in an agreement or consent order because courts can ignore years of conduct demonstrating that the parenting time was changed
Continue Reading If You Want a Modification of Parenting Time to Stick, Get it in Writing Because Years Worth of Conduct Can Be Ignored
Common law marriage does not exist in New Jersey. If you want treatment as a spouse or surviving spouse, you need to enter in a marriage, civil union or domestic partnership.
Continue Reading No, Common Law Marriage Still Doesn’t Exist in New Jersey
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