A husband and wife in Vantimiglia v. Pandelo were divorced in September 2010, and the mother was designated as the children’s parent of primary residence. About a year and a half later, the parties entered...
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A mother and father, who were never married to each other, have been in court fighting over physical custody of their son, Noah. When Noah was almost two, he and his mother moved to Pennsylvania, while his father...
A man and a woman, both married to other people, had a two-year relationship. In May 2014, the man tried to break up with the woman after she rejected his marriage proposal. She said that she could not marry him...
Following a trial, a couple’s divorce was finalized in May 2013 in a dual judgment of divorce (JOD) entered by a family court judge. One provision of the JOD in Ji v. Lo ordered that the marital residence be...
Two years ago, the Family Part ruled that S.L. had been abusing or neglecting her children. The court came to this conclusion in N.J. Div. of Child Protection and Permanency v. S.L. when S.L. was pregnant with...
This week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided Taveras v. Prieto, a case in which the ex-wife wanted to set aside the Property Settlement Agreement (PSA) entered into by her and her ex-husband. She claimed...
A gay male couple and a lesbian couple had a child together. According to the New York Post, one of the men donated his sperm to the women. Both couples decided to purchase identical apartments in New York...
After marrying in Sweden in 2001, a couple had three children, all of whom were born in Sweden. The wife is a Swedish citizen and the husband is a Canadian citizen, and the children have dual Swedish and Canadian...
After the trial court in Kaller v. Gogan determined that the husband’s alimony payments should be reduced to $175 per week, the wife appealed that decision. The appellate court sent the case back down to the...
Tennessee Refusesd to Grant Divorce to Straight Couple, Citing Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Sep 10, 2015
Last week, a couple in their sixties sought a divorce in Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to WZTV Fox 17 Nashville, Chancellor Jeffrey M. Atherton refused to rule on the couple’s divorce. He said that the...
Last week, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the lower court’s ruling in Coshland v. Coshland, a case in which an ex-husband wanted to stop paying alimony to his ex-wife. The former couple was married for...
In L.I.B. v. D.M.B., the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the trial court’s decision to enter a final restraining order against the ex-husband for harassing and stalking his ex-wife. His behavior violated the...
This week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Moffitt v. Moffitt, in which the ex-husband appealed an order that required him to pay 81 percent of the parties’ daughter’s Stafford and Perkins student...
After giving birth to twin girls, a mother in the case T.M. v. A.S. sought child support from the man she believed to be the father of her babies, A.S. The Passaic County Board of Social Services filed an...
In issuing the judgment of divorce in Terry v. Terry, the trial judge made two interesting decisions when dividing up the marital property. First, he decided that a rental property in only the husband’s name was...
The New Jersey Appellate Division recently decided N.J. Div. of Child Protection and Permanency v. M.H. When a man went to pick his three daughters up from their maternal grandmother’s house, a physical and...
While grandparents may play a big role in the lives of their grandchildren, a parent may object to the grandparents’ involvement. Unless the kids would suffer a real harm without their grandparents, a competent parent...
There are fourteen different acts that constitute domestic violence under N.J.S.A. § 2C:25-19(a). Domestic violence is often thought of as the use of physical force, but that is not always the case. ...
Last week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Yannuzzi v. Yannuzzi. After a couple with three kids got divorced in 2004, they entered into an agreement that the husband would pay the wife $120,000...
Judge May Use Your Past Income, Rather Than Present Income, To Determine Support Payments
Aug 07, 2015
After the trial court in a divorce case Perry v. Jones awarded the wife a lump sum of $50,000 as “additional child support,” the husband appealed the decision. The wife cross-appealed, saying that the...
