In a recent unpublished decision, the Appellate Division addressed the issue of emancipation and how that relates, in part, to college expenses. In Lichter v. Lichter, 2017 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1532 (App. Div. 2017), the Court reviewed a limited record from the trial court to address these issues. The parties entered into a Property…
Paying permanent Alimony? Thinking about retiring? Hoping to terminate alimony as a result? If you said yes to all of the questions above, then you may want to become acquainted with Henneberry v. Henneberry, an unpublished Appellate Division case that was decided this past July 2017. Richard and Barbara were married on February 7, 1970…
Calendar year 2017 brought with it one of the most marked changes in recent history by way of New Jersey’s Supreme Court decision Bisbing v. Bisbing, 230 N.J. 3019 (2017). The Bisbing case overturned nearly seventeen (17) year’s worth of case law, shifting the standard for parents seeking to relocate with a minor child to…
The Courts in New Jersey have made it very clear that issues concerning child support are always reviewable and that child support can be modified upon a showing of a change in circumstances (N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23). Child Support Is the Right of the Child It is further important to note that the Supreme Court of New…
It relatively common knowledge that policemen and firefighters have what can often times prove to be lucrative pensions. In fact, one of the many factors in choosing to enter the police or fire service, particularly in New Jersey, are the benefits of being able to retire relatively early (depending of course upon age, years of…