Blog Posts in May, 2018

Making Sure Your Approach to Divorce Doesn't Hurt Your Children

Every parent simply wants what is best for his or her children. Co-parenting during a healthy and successful relationship is difficult and often even the happiest couples will have disagreements on how to handle parenting issues. When a couple is divorcing, those parenting issues can become infinitely more complicated, as now you are trying to navigate a complicated legal proceeding as well as ...

What Kind of Support Team Can Help in Your Divorce?

There is no doubt that divorce can be a very difficult and distressing time for the spouses involved. After planning a life together carefully, sometimes for many years, separating lives, assets, debts, and property is a stressful process that requires careful attention and often lots of time. Having the right people around you to help you through your divorce can make a big difference to you in ...

Rights for Fathers In and Out of Wedlock

Expanding your family is an exciting time. Adding a new baby to your family brings lots of changes and many new responsibilities and rights for both parents. There can be a lot of confusion about what kinds of rights and responsibilities the father has with regard to the child in the event the relationship falls apart. This can become even more complicated where the parents are not married to each ...

Cohabitation Clauses and Termination of Alimony

Any divorce litigant looks forward to the day when the case is over and he or she can move on and start to rebuild his or her life. Luckily, it is becoming more and more common for parties to settle their divorce out of court. This provides the parties with the opportunity to settle the case quickly and with the ability to build in to the divorce decree specific provisions that they can ...

Top Business Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

The American dream includes working hard and achieving your goals for yourself and your family. There are twenty eight million small businesses in the United States, and behind each and every one are hard-working individuals striving to make the business a success. Husband and wife teams are frequently behind these businesses and may have spent decades working on the business and helping it to ...

Divorce Rates Spike After Holidays

People with successful marriages know that it is important to work on your marriage no matter what time of year it is. A successful marriage requires effort from both spouses every day, year round. Summer and winter holidays can often be some of the most fun times for these strong marriages, as they provide an opportunity to spend time with each other, immediate family, and extended family. For a ...

How Rights Change with Cohabitation Versus Marriage

The structure and landscape of the American family is changing. Not that long ago it was culturally taboo for a couple to live together without the benefit of marriage. This is no longer the case, and it is now very common for people to reside together, plan for the future together, and even have children together without even ever considering the possibility of formalizing their relationship. ...

Fighting a Claim of Separate Property

The end of a marriage signals the beginning of what can be a long and complicated legal proceeding. At the heart of many of these cases is that of division of assets and debts. In New Jersey, marital property and debts are subject to an equitable distribution at the conclusion of the divorce. Separate property, by contrast, is not subject to division, and belongs solely to one spouse. Separate ...

Property Division Without Divorce

In today’s society, the form of relationships is changing quickly. While it used to be against societal taboos for people to live together out of wedlock, it is no longer frowned upon or even unusual. People may live together for a lifetime, combine finances, have children together, and plan for the future all without ever formalizing their relationship. New Jersey does not recognize “common law” ...