MILLBURN NEW JERSEY ESSEX COUNTY DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

The father of a deceased child need not have supported that child during her lifetime to qualify as a parent to take from the child's estate under New Jersey intestacy laws. Although the Family Part has the equitable authority to grant retroactive child support even where no claim for child support had been made during a child's lifetime, the circumstances in this case were not sufficient to warrant retroactive child support after the child's death.    I/M/O Rogiers, Deceased, New Jersey App. Div.; ___N.J. Super.___ (App. Div. 2007); 2007 WL 3070972; October 24, 2007