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Financial Support While Your Divorce is Pending: Interpretation of the New Statute

A recent decision by the New Jersey Superior Court (Ocean County) dispels a common misconception in how...

ALIMONY & RETIREMENT: WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME UNDER NJ‘S AMENDED ALIMONY STATUTE?

The issue of when to retire and how retirement will affect a payor’s alimony obligation is not...

NJ‘S RICO STATUTE IS NOT JUST FOR MOBSTERS; WHAT IT MEANS IN DIVORCE

New Jersey’s civil RICO statute is an under-utilized tool in New Jersey divorce cases, combating fraudulent business...

Can an Unallocated Child Support Order be Retroactively Modified When There are Both Emancipated and Unemancipated Children?

In what appears to be a case of first impression, the trial court in Ocean County considered...

Change of Circumstance, Alimony, Child Support, and the Impact of Additional Non-Marital Children

In the unpublished decision by the New Jersey Appellate Court, Karkoszka v. Karkoszka, the appellate court issued...

Welcome to Riker Danzig’s Family Law Blog!

Welcome! We want to sincerely thank you for viewing Riker Danzig’s Family Law Blog. Our hope with...

LGBT: Marriage Yes; Fertility Treatment - Not in New Jersey

In what may be considered more of a constitutional or even insurance law issue, rather than a...

Grandparent Visitation Rights – A Complicated Issue For Courts

Grandparent visitation rights is a complicated issue for the courts.  On the one hand, you have the...

Ambiguous Property Settlement Agreement – It’s a “Mess”

New Jersey courts embrace the resolution of marital controversies through a Property Settlement Agreement (“PSA”), which are...