Court cases that deal with adoption can be some of the most emotionally difficult to try and hear. Emotions run high. Rulings can change the entire trajectory of a child's family life. At stake are the child's wellbeing and who the child will call his family for the...
As divorce rates continue to climb in America, family courts across the country must often decide custody battles. Custody arrangements go from commonplace to creative. Having a child spend every other weekend at one parent's home, and the rest of the time with...
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....
It is a long standing principle that contract terms will be upheld unless there is a specific reason they should not be, for example if they were made under duress or their terms are unconscionable. Penalty clauses are not in the "safe' clauses category. They are...
Woody Allen once said "[t]here are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" Insurance is generally the last thing people want to think or talk about. Even so, it is an important part of most, if not all, peoples'...
Woody Allen once said "[t]here are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" Insurance is generally the last thing people want to think or talk about. Even so, it is an important part of most, if not all, peoples'...
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