Question: "What is a New Jersey divorce trial like?"

Answer: "You don't want one."

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court, Trial

As a divorce lawyer, half of my clients are people who are getting divorced.

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court, family court

What happens if your New Jersey divorce case cannot be settled through conventional means?

Topics: Divorce Court

Child custody has been a very difficult issue since biblical times. King Solomon had his hands full.

Judges today still have their hands full.

First it was custody evaluations by a psychologist. $20,000 plus each.

Then came the Custody Neutral Assessment. A poor man's version of the custody evaluation. 

Now many judges just start with an assumption that 50/50 joint custody is in the child's best interest. Well, that was easy...but is it really right?

Here are my top 10 ideas about custody in New Jersey. I hope that they are useful to you:

 

1. This first article will teach you a little about JOINT CUSTODY.

Topics: Child Custody, Co-parenting, Divorce Court, family court

Topics: Divorce Court, family court

If you are going to file for divorce, you should know that there are nine NJ divorce grounds.

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court

It has often been said that 99 out of 100 NJ Divorce Cases are ultimately settled, and that only 1 out of 100 divorce cases in New Jersey actually result in a trial before a Family Court judge.

The way that a case is most often settled is through the use of a custom drafted document called a Matrimonial Settlement Agreement (also called a Property Settlement Agreement (PSA) or an Interspousal Agreement.

There are many names for the same type of document.

Drafting a Matrimonial Settlement Agreement (MSA) in a NJ divorce case is not an easy task. It is sort of the metaphorical equivalent to what a sculptor faces when he sits down to create a sculpture. 

I'm not a sculptor. I have never tried sculpting from a block of rock.

Yet I imagine that if I were a sculptor, I would start with a square block of stone.

I imagine that I would have a general idea of what I intended my final project to ultimately look like before I started chipping away at that stone.

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court

A very nice woman, frightened out of her mind, hired me recently.

She told me how she had been informed by an email from her husband's lawyer an hour earlier that her divorce case was scheduled for TRIAL in 2 days, gave her the address of the courthouse, but told her that she really didn't need to appear in Court.

Topics: Divorce, Divorce Court

 

Topics: Divorce Court, Trial