NJ Family Issues

RSS | Comments RSS

Archive for December, 2008

Where the parents’ combined annual net income exceeds the maximum threshold contained in the guidelines, the court, in determining an appropriate child support award, shall apply the guidelines up to the threshold amount and then supplement the guidelines-based award with a discretionary sum based on the remaining family income

December 31, 2008 at 9:11 pm

(more…)

A litigant who makes frequent and repetitive applications for the purpose of abuse or harassment may suffer sanctions

December 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm

(more…)

Even if the acquisition of property may be traced more directly to one party than the other, equitable distribution must reflect both the non-pecuniary and the pecuniary contributions to the marriage

December 30, 2008 at 8:22 pm

(more…)

Absent a showing of good cause for deviation, a judge establishing or modifying child support must apply the guidelines

December 30, 2008 at 8:18 pm

(more…)

What is Bad Faith?

December 30, 2008 at 8:14 pm

(more…)

Harassment can involve a person who engages in any course of alarming conduct or who repeatedly committed acts with the purpose to alarm or seriously annoy a person

December 30, 2008 at 7:51 pm

(more…)

A nonconsensual touching that falls short of criminal assault is an insufficient predicate act for entering a FRO in a DV case

December 30, 2008 at 7:07 pm

(more…)

To insure alimony, maintain a life insurance policy

December 30, 2008 at 7:47 am

(more…)

QDRO is used to maintain the tax-advantaged position of retirement accounts

December 30, 2008 at 6:17 am

(more…)

The Gun Control Law imposes a bar to obtaining a gun permit when a firearm seized in a domestic violence matter is not returned for a reason set forth in the Domestic Violence Forfeiture Statute

December 23, 2008 at 5:46 am

(more…)