When you have multiple devices that are connected through a cloud-based server, they allow you to access everything on that server, through any of your devices. This is generally the reason most people choose to have access to a cloud-based server to begin with - you...
Year: 2018
Text Messages Not Meant for Your Ex
When you have multiple devices that are connected through a cloud-based server, they allow you to access everything on that server, through any of your devices. This is generally the reason most people choose to have access to a cloud-based server to begin with - you...
Divorce and Life Insurance
Life insurance is an interesting product for consumers. It's designed not to benefit the consumer himself/herself, but his/her beneficiaries after he/she passes away. It's even more interesting when a divorce is involved. When a spouse is listed on a life insurance...
Not the Father
Courts are no stranger to requests for paternity tests. Usually, it involves a question of one or more individuals, each claiming or disclaiming biological parentage, of an unborn or newborn baby. Potential parents often want to determine this question at the start of...
Restraining Orders without Domestic Violence
One legal tool available to victims or potential victims of domestic violence is the ability to seek a temporary or final restraining order, also known as a "TRO" or "FRO", respectively. The court relies on evidence presented by the parties to determine if a TRO or...
New Jersey Signs On for Surrogacy Contracts
The New Jersey legislature has passed legislation that will allow for surrogacy-for-hire contracts. Such legislation was previously vetoed twice, but found success recently, ending a period of nearly thirty years of unenforceability of such contracts. A...
Cohabitation is More than Just Living with Another Person
The New Jersey courts have long recognized and respected the terms of a marital settlement agreement (MSA) so long as it is valid. They are taken as expressions of the parties' wishes and will honor it as long as there is not a reason to disregard it. A cohabitation...
Relationships with Grandparents and Best Interests of the Child
When a child is involved in a family proceeding, usually in child custody and visitation disputes, the court generally applies a "best interests" standard. That is, the court prioritizes a child's best interest in making its decisions. Thus, it will ask the question,...
All Letters are not Wills
New Jersey recognizes three different types of wills: 1) a formal will; 2) a holographic will; and a writing that may not meet the state's formalities of a will but can be otherwise proven that it should be treated as a will. A formal will requires that it is signed...
Invasion of Privacy – A Victory for Victims
There are certain places we have all come to expect a level of privacy. Our homes and public restrooms are just a few of them. We believe that if someone is at our home, for example, he or she will ring the doorbell or knock before they enter; anything otherwise feels...