SHORT HILLS NEW JERSEY ESSEX COUNTY DIVORCE MEDIATION

The ex-wife's appeal from the New Jersey divorce judge's custody determination was properly dismissed as time-barred. When the order was entered --- denying her request to relocate to New York with the parties' daughter and noting that, if she did so, the father would get custody of the child --- she did not appeal and moved anyway. Even in response to the father's limitations-based opposition to her current motion, she made no attempt to explain her delay. If there is evidence that the current custody situation is no longer in the best interests of the child, then the mother is free to seek modification of the order.     Bazin v. Stoll, etc., New Jersey App. Div, July 27, 2007