Archives for July 2016

As an experienced Bergen County Divorce Attorney I am often asked about equitable distribution.  Equitable distribution means dividing of the assets. You hear the word equal in equitable; that does not mean that you are necessarily going to obtain 50% of the assets. New Jersey is not an automatic 50/50 state. We divide the assets
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As an experienced New Jersey Divorce Lawyer, the issue of retirement plans and equitably dividing them is a common question that clients ask me. If the funds in the retirement plan were acquired during the course of the marriage, that is considered marital property, and therefore it is subject to be equitably divided. Do you
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As an experienced Bergen County Divorce Attorney I am occasionally asked if courts favor the mother. In New Jersey, the courts do not favor one parent over another. In the New Jersey statute, it’s very clear that each parent should be on equal footing when heading into a divorce, especially with regard to custody and parenting
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As an experienced Hackensack Divorce Lawyer I am often asked what the difference is between a contested divorce and an uncontested divorce.  The difference between contested and uncontested divorce is whether there are issues in your case that need to be resolved or not. An uncontested divorce case means you have resolved all the issues.
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