It is not unusual for a New Jersey parent who as an obligation to pay child support to fall on difficult times, particularly over the past several years when the economy was not very strong and the job market suffered. A parent who experiences a job layoff, for...
Month: November 2017
How do you put a value on a small business?
Many New Jersey residents own their own businesses. Sometimes, this is just a small, part-time operation that supplements income from a husband and wife's day jobs. At other times, the business really takes on a life of its own and becomes the means of a couple's...
How New Jersey’s support guidelines treat high income
Like other states, New Jersey has child support guidelines which help judges in this state make fair and consistent decisions about how much child support a parent should pay.Most New Jersey parents going through a divorce or, for that matter, a paternity case, will...
Why try divorce mediation in New Jersey?
Previous posts here have discussed various issues that New Jersey residents may encounter when going through the divorce process. From child support and alimony, to the reasons one can plead in the state's courts to request the marriage be dissolved, many of these...
The grounds for a divorce in New Jersey
Many married couples throughout New Jersey experience bumps and challenges in their relationships that can test the commitment of the partners to their shared martial experience. While in most cases partners can work through their differences and emerge from their...
Divorcing after a short marriage
New Jersey is actually home to one of the lowest divorce rates in the United States. Roughly 9 percent of adults in the state divorce, and one component of this seems to be that people in New Jersey tend to marry at an older age. Every divorce is...