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Under New Jersey Administrative Directive #2-14, a parent taken into custody for nonpayment of child support obligations has a right to counsel.  If the court finds that the parent is indigent for purposes of...

New Jersey courts have long taken an appropriate amount of savings into account as part of the marital standard of living in making alimony determinations.  Savings as a component of alimony has been utilized to protect...

Last month, Hollywood’s top couple shocked the world when it announced the end of their 12-year relationship.  The breakup of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has even saddened the Dalai Lama, according to US...

This November, Partner Paul M. da Costa will share a bit of his medical malpractice trial expertise with the New Jersey legal community. Paul will be participating in the annual Meadowlands Seminar presented by the New...

On September 28, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a long overdue revision of its rules in order to improve care of nursing home residents.  The rule aims to...

Last month, a Nassau County judge found Maureen McPhilmy, Bill O’Reilly’s ex-wife, in civil contempt of court for failing to abide by a court order giving the Fox News host time with his daughter.  According to The New...

This month, in Cuevas v. Wentworth Group, the New Jersey Supreme Court made an important adjustment to its remittitur jurisprudence.  Cuevas was a Law Against Discrimination case in which the plaintiffs,...

A recent report revealed levels of hexavalent chromium in most water systems in Bergen and Passaic Counties that scientists consider unsafe.  The concerning issue, however, is state-wide....

In Corman v. Corman, the husband and wife married in 1994, had two children together, and divorced on July 2, 2013 after an uncontested hearing.  About a year later, the wife moved to set aside parts of the marital...

In Polcari v. Polcari, the husband and wife married in 1993, and had 3 children: a son in October 1995; a second son in August 1997; and a daughter in May 2000.  The husband and wife divorced in June 2010, and a...

Just weeks after the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 hit markets, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an official recall of the device. Now, the Department of Transportation announced that it will only allow...

In Mueller v. Mueller, a Family Part judge interpreted the term “prospective retirement” as it is used in the recently amended New Jersey alimony statute.  That law provides that a supporting spouse may seek to...

William Paterson University has been named a defendant in a wrongful death action brought by a mother who claims that the college mishandled her daughter’s rape complaint, which led to her suicide.  According to the...

In Mayer v. Mayer, the husband and wife married in 1986 and had two children together: a son born in June 1994 and a daughter born in April 1996.  The wife filed for divorce in 2006.  In 2006, the wife also...

N.J.S.A. 2A:17-56.23a provides that “[n]o payment or installment of an order for child support . . . shall be retroactively modified by the court except with respect to the period during which there is a pending application...

Rule 1:10-3 gives a court discretion to impose sanctions on a party who refuses to comply with a prior court order.  Moreover, Rule 5:3-7 authorizes economic sanctions for violating custody, parenting...

Sarno da Costa D’Aniello Maceri Webb LLC is pleased to announce that 4 of our very own attorneys have been included in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, the oldest and most esteemed peer-review publication...

In the midst of a 33-year marriage, the couple in the case DeLong v. DeLong sold their marital home after the husband’s mother conveyed her house to them for a dollar.  They paid his mother $500 a month as...

Pop Warner, the largest youth football league in the United States, is facing a class-action lawsuit, reports the New York Times.  The suit was brought by two mothers whose deceased sons played football as children...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now requiring stronger warnings about the potentially lethal consequences of combining prescription painkillers and sedatives, according to the Associated Press.  Opioid...