Call Us TodayPersonality disorders can wreak havoc in marriages, making life miserable for you and your children. It is not surprising that these mental health conditions are associated with higher rates of divorce, domestic abuse and other problems. But while divorce can be hard in any situation, divorcing a spouse with a personality disorder is often exponentially
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Can Alimony Payments Change?
Are you stuck paying or receiving alimony that doesn’t make sense anymore and ‘wish’ you could change it? What if it was determined that may be overpaying or not obligated to make alimony payments anymore. What if you are receiving too little and circumstances have changed that you want to explore whether you could be
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How to File an Emergency Custody Order in New Jersey
Custody battles over children can get pretty serious. Emotions can be intense. And in such moments, parents may wonder how to file an emergency custody order in New Jersey. The process to determine child custody can be long, especially when it is highly contentious. The latter specifically can be a cause of concern for many
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Do Both Parents Have to Pay for College?
If you are/were married, both parents are responsible for financially supporting their children following divorce, which may include paying for college. In the 1982 case of Newburgh V. Arrigo, 88 N.J. 529, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that parents’ duty to provide children an education includes college. What this basically means is that if
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Family Law Issues Can Cause Emotional and Physical Health Challenges
Anyone who has gone through a divorce knows how difficult and stressful it can be. In fact, according to the Holmes-Rahe scale, a commonly used assessment for measuring stress, divorce is the second most stressful life event for adults. Only the death of a spouse beats out the trauma of divorce. Marital separation comes in
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