Typical divorces involve the divorcing couple, at least two attorneys, a judge and possibly other people involved in the court system. The divorce results are determined by a judge and the timing of the divorce is subject to the court’s schedule. A new trend in divorce is taking the court out of the picture and
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New Jersey parents should take advantage of child support amnesty
New Jersey parents who have fallen into arrears with their child support payments should take advantage of a one-week amnesty offered to help them catch up. According to one Camden County freeholder, 400,000 New Jersey children are dependent on child support. In almost 60 percent of those cases, a parent has fallen behind on payments.
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I’m pregnant, and my ex-husband is the father
When a couple chooses to end their marriage, the day that they finalize their divorce is the day that they are no longer married under the eyes of the law. There is no gray area, no in between where the law is concerned. However, this doesn’t mean that the emotions automatically disappear too. Emotions that
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QDRO as a support enforcement tool?
Taking time to negotiate and draft the terms in a divorce settlement is time well spent, because those terms are very important once the divorce has been finalized. These terms will determine the property that each spouse gets, the alimony payment that will help them through the new transition, the schedule for when they will
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New Jersey couples divorce at a lower rate than any other state
In 1920, the divorce rate was 92.3 divorces per 1,000 females residing in the United States. Now, nearly a century later, the divorce rate measures in at the lowest it has been since that time. The rate has, of course, fluctuated in the 90-plus years, but researchers with Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage
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