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You want to dissolve your Final Restraining Order (hereinafter “FRO”). It’s been YEARS since it’s been entered. In fact, you even communicate with the other part and you are confident that he/she no longer “fears” you as they might have once had. You are ready to file a motion to dissolve the FRO, when you…

LICHTER V. LICHTER

In a recent unpublished decision, the Appellate Division addressed the issue of emancipation and how that relates, in part, to college expenses.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…

Henneberry v. Henneberry

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If you said yes to all of the questions above, then you may want to become acquainted with Henneberry v. Henneberry, an unpublished Appellate Division case that was decided this past July 2017.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…

Relocation in the wake of Bisbing

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…

Securing retirement on PFRS pensions

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…

ATTOR v. ATTOR

As has been seen on television and in movies, one’s ability to “plead the fifth” is a well-known right stemming from the United States Constitution. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, in relevant part states that “No person shall… shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived…

Service of process via Social Media

As a result of a new published decision, K.A. and K.I.A. v. J.L., a court found that service by Facebook would be sufficient to confer personal jurisdiction over the defendant. In K.A. and K.I.A. v. J.L., K.A. and K.I.A. were adoptive parents of their son, referred to as “Z.A.” Z.A.’s alleged biological father, J.L., had…

GAC v. GAC

One issue that usually becomes an issue as children get older is the issue of college contribution. This issue will affect those who are in the process of divorcing, those who are already divorced, and those who were never married, but have children together. Ordinary child support, in most circumstances, does not cover the costs…