Family Law & Divorce Blog

After a custody order is in place, you might be wondering if your ex-spouse can travel out of the country with your child. Without your consent, a court order allowing international travel, or permission from the court, the answer is usually no. Traveling with children after divorce can present more challenges than you’d expect. Leaving […]

Parents are required to provide financial support for their children. Even if parents are never married or divorced, they must support their children. Child support is state-ordered financial support paid from one parent to another parent. Typically, the non-custodial parent pays the custodial parent. New Jersey calculates child support using standard guidelines. The state offers […]

Spousal support, also called alimony or spousal maintenance, plays a critical role in divorces where there’s a financial imbalance between spouses. In New Jersey, spousal support may be awarded to ensure that the divorce does not have a disproportionate effect on one spouse. It’s also meant to help the spouse with lower earnings maintain a […]

For most ex-spouses, the thought of getting back together after a divorce is unimaginable. Getting remarried is impossible. However, some former spouses find that they miss each other and want to get back together. Whether that means re-marriage or living together, it is essential to consider the consequences of getting back together with an ex-spouse […]

Many married couples choose to remain living in the home together even after separating, although “separation” takes on a new meaning under these circumstances. Is There Formal Separation in New Jersey? Under legal separation, a couple remains married, at least temporarily, but lives apart. Although many states institutionalize this arrangement, New Jersey does not. Instead, […]

With a divorce rate of 2.3 per 1,000 residents and over nine million people living in the state, New Jersey sees tens of thousands of divorces on a yearly basis. If you have decided to pursue divorce or separation, you’re not alone. The process requires a lot of serious, life-altering decisions, including how you will […]

In some situations, an emergency child custody hearing may be necessary to protect a child from harm. The court only grants emergency child custody hearing if an emergency remedy is the only way to protect the child from imminent harm. Emergent hearings may be held if the child is in danger because of: Emergency child […]

Under the best circumstances, co-parenting can be challenging. However, New Jersey courts prefer joint physical and legal custody. It is presumed that sharing custody is in the child’s best interest. However, some circumstances could cause a parent to lose custody of their child in Monmouth County. Let’s review how the court decides custody matters in […]

Job loss is a problem for the entire family. When wage-earners lose their job, they cannot pay bills and expenses. However, when that person pays alimony to an ex-spouse, the ex-spouse also suffers a loss in income. Alimony is spousal support ordered by the court. In 2014, New Jersey made significant changes to its alimony […]

Permanent alimony (or open-durational alimony) in New Jersey is a form of financial support paid by one spouse to the other after a divorce is finalized. Divorced couples who had been married for at least 20 years may be required to permanent alimony. As the name suggests, permanent alimony has no scheduled end date, and […]