Everyday thousands of individuals across the nation enter into legal binding contractual agreements. These contracts range from simple oral agreements, leases, employment contracts, those made to purchase a home, and more-complex contracts concerning the merger of...
By Chakeema Cruickshank, Staff Writer What is a Non-Compete Agreement? A non-compete agreement is a contract between employers and employees that restricts an individual from working for a competitor during or after their employment. They can also prevent an...
It has been 6 months since New Jersey's Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act (the "Act") took effect. On March 27, 2018, the New Jersey legislature passed the Act, amending the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("LAD"). The LAD has long been New Jersey's law for promotion...
Many times, when a former employee files a lawsuit against an employer, a court will uphold an arbitration agreement between them. An arbitration agreement is a contract that employers may have their employees sign that requires that the employee agrees to forgo...
The Anti-Eviction Act is a New Jersey law that protects residential tenants' rights and specifically prohibits landlords from evicting residents without good cause. N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 (2017). Good cause is considered to be anything that "has willfully or by reason of...
Buying property together as a couple can be very tricky. Relationships can change quickly - sometimes faster than legal documents can be changed. This is precisely what happened in Burke v. Bernardini, a New Jersey Appellate Court case decided last month. Mr....
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