HO-HO-KUS BERGEN COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE LAWYER

Because the father is a Maine resident, the New Jersey divorce court did not have personal jurisdiction over him. Therefore, the trial court's decision finding him to be the father of plaintiff's twin girls, and requiring him to pay child support is reversed. The trial court erred in concluding it had jurisdiction to entertain the Maryland-resident mother's complaint merely because defendant paid child support through New Jersey probation for his 4 other children in New Jersey, had a cell phone with a New .Jersey area code and occasionally worked here as a laborer or electrician. None of these contacts bears upon the relationship the father has with the mother, or the paternity of the children, or their support.      Brennan v. Brown, New Jersey App. Div, March 17, 2008