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You Proposed on Valentine’s Day, But Did You Also Ask For A Prenup?

Entering into a marriage is not all fun and games. Valentine’s Day just passed and you proposed to your now fiancé and they accepted.  Reality is starting to set in. You might have assets you wish to protect. You might have debts accumulated that your intended does not wish to be responsible for. Or you

Step Parent Adoption: Creating a Legal Relationship with Your Stepchildren

Marrying an individual with children from a prior relationship, does not entitle you to make medical, educational or other important decisions on that child or children’s behalf. Only by creating a legal relationship between yourself and the child (not just their parent) would you be allowed to make those decisions.  In order to create such

Estate Planning Tips for your Second Marriage

The first, and simplest, recommendation is to prepare and execute updated will or trust documents for you and your current spouse to ensure that each of you are protected. In addition to providing for your current spouse, you want to consider any children you have with your previous spouse or in this relationship, and specify

Does Alimony Affect Child Support?

A supported spouse, at the conclusion of his or her divorce, may be entitled to receive alimony.  Alimony will ultimately affect that person’s net income. Because of this, any alimony payment from one spouse to another, must be determined before any child support calculations can be done, as child support is calculated utilizing parent’s combined

Business Owners and Divorce

A doctor with a medical practice, an electrician with multiple employees, and a sole proprietor of an IT company, all have one thing in common.  They are each business owners, with the sole ownership interest in their business, which is not only their primary source of income but also their asset. When either spouse in

My case is going to trial. What should I expect?

The good thing about hiring experiences matrimonial attorneys, whether in a post judgment dispute, or for your divorce, is that this attorney will prepare your case for the eventuality of trial, but hope that they are not forced to do so. For example, your attorney will have already exchanged discovery with the other side. Discovery

Top 7 Misconceptions in Divorce

1.  My divorce is uncontested, I don’t need a Marital Settlement Agreement. If you have children, assets (property, bank accounts, etc.) or there will be an exchange of monies at the conclusion of your divorce, such as alimony and child support, it is absolutely recommended that you enter into a marital settlement agreement with your

Alimony: don’t pay too much and don’t ask for too little:

In New Jersey, determining the payment of alimony from one spouse to another is a very fact sensitive inquiry.  With the modification of the tax code for deductibility and taxability of alimony payments, the negotiations on what alimony payments are reasonable, has also changed. Clients should know what they are fighting for, and in what

Does a New Jersey Final Restraining Order really last forever?

In the State of New Jersey, there is no limitation on the length of time a Final Restraining Order (“FRO”) will remain in effect once it is issued by a family court judge following an evidentiary hearing.  This is different from other jurisdictions, which might have a restraining orders that last only for a period

My Spouse Stopped Paying Our Marital Bills, What Should I Do?

If you have just filed for divorce or are thinking of filing for divorce, you and your spouse are in the “pendente lite” period.  This is the court’s term for “pending litigation.” An agreement, or consent order, can be entered between you and your spouse establishing each of your pendente lite obligations. This could include,
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