When you are in love, it may be difficult to see you are in an abusive relationship. This is especially true if there is not real physical violence. Perhaps your friends all over New Jersey have said something about it, but you brushed it off as your partner “having a bad day” or “just being […]

Two factors can affect how smoothly your division of property and other assets in a divorce can go: how long you have been married, and how prosperous you have become during the marriage. You may have a spacious home, significant liquid assets, a sizeable investment portfolio, additional real estate holdings, pensions and other retirement accounts, […]

In New Jersey, child support is often vital for raising a child on your own. As such, divorcing (or otherwise separated) parents need to know how the state calculates what the non-custodial parent must pay. This can be broken down into a few simple steps. First is calculating the income of both parents. This not […]

When a couple gets divorced, dividing up their property and assets can be complicated. New Jersey is an equitable distribution state. This means that a judge will determine what is fair or equitable in dividing up property, instead of splitting the property in half. If one or both spouses own a business or have a […]

Going through a divorce is typically one of the toughest ordeals a person can experience. When you have children involved in the process, it can become much more difficult. Both parents pay want custody, leaving the courts in a bind. Understanding the different forms of custody is the first step to resolving these disputes. The […]

With graduation season upon us, a common question received by family law attorneys is relative to the impact of a child’s graduation on child support. Child support payments do not automatically terminate when a child graduates from high school. While many states have automatic emancipation at eighteen, New Jersey is not one of those states. […]

New Jersey is looking to give law enforcement officers more power when it comes to domestic violence issues involving guns. As it stands now, officers can seize any guns found at a location of domestic abuse, if there is just cause. A new bill is being discussed in the state legislature that would further this […]

Recently, I was posed with an interesting question. An adoptive father had been told by the natural mother of their child that he did not have any right to legal and physical custody of their child. Since the parties were not married, the father worried that there was some truth to what he had been […]

The New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act became law not too long ago. Even though collaborative divorce has been used for many years, the implementation of the law made New Jersey the 11th state to adopt the alternative divorce procedure that is seen by many as faster and less costly than a traditional litigation style divorce. […]

In a recent Opinion of the Appellate Division, the court commented that the Husband had attempted to make himself “divorce poor” by cashing out his life insurance policy after the Complaint for Divorce was filed, hiding businesses and assets, and claiming that he had no access to a trust. The Husband also refused throughout the […]