In an illustrative, though unpublished case, Judge L.R. Jones, (ret) addressed head on the unspoken truth about maintaining the marital “status quo” pendente lite. Malek v. Malek featured a typical middle-class divorce quandary: Plaintiff Husband was the breadwinner as a public school teacher earning $90,000 a year while Defendant Wife was a part-time hair dresser…
In Atwell v. Atwell, the Appellate Division addressed the trial court’s obligation to consider pendente lite support paid by an obligor spouse in awarding limited duration alimony pursuant to the recently revised alimony statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23. Defendant husband appealed the trial judge’s award of five (5) years of limited duration alimony commencing from the entry…
In the landmark case of Tannen v. Tannen, 416 N.J. Super. 248 (App. Div. 2010), the Appellate Division conclusively determined (as upheld by the Supreme Court, see 208 N.J. 409 (2011)) that a divorcing spouse could not be imputed income based upon their interest in a discretionary trust for the purpose of calculating support obligations.…
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