New Jersey Family Law

WALLINGTON RAMSEY ROCHELLE PARK WOOD-RIDGE BERGEN COUNTY NJ ANNULMENT DIVORCE RELIGIOUS

Pope Francis has just called for "open doors" to the Roman Catholic church, in deference to New Jersey divorced Catholics, who have remarried without a church annulment.      New Jersey Herald, August 5, 2015

 

 

MURRAY HILL NEW PROVIDENCE SCOTCH PLAINS SUMMIT UNION COUNTY NJ ANNULMENT MEDIATION ARBITRATION

Under a new decision by a New Jersey divorce judge, an annulment may be easier to obtain. Now, a New Jersey marriage might be annulled based on “equitable fraud”, without requiring evidence of outright deceit or lying by one party.      Easton v. Mercer, New Jersey Ch. Div., July 16, 2015

NEW JERSEY ANNULMENT DEFAULT DIVORCE JUDGMENT MEDIATION LAWYER ARBITRATION

This case implicates the “first-to-file” rule of New Jersey matrimonial law, in the context of competing claims of a default divorce judgment and an annulment.      Kemunto-Angwenyi v. Mghenyi, New Jersey App. Div., January 7, 2015

MILLBURN CALDWELL SOUTH ORANGE MAPLEWOOD ESSEX COUNTY NJ DIVORCE ANNULMENT MEDIATOR LAWYER

Under a bill now pending in the New Jersey legislature, you would be able to obtain an annulment of a New Jersey marriage or a New Jersey civil union, if you filed within 30 days.   New Jersey Assembly Bill # A-1335, January 4, 2012

MENDHAM BOONTON FLORHAM PARK KINNELON MORRIS COUNTY NJ DIVORCE ANNULMENT LAWYER MEDIATOR

Kim says she wants a divorce based on "Irreconcilable Differences."  But Kris says no deal : he wants an Annulment, based on her "fraud" in the inception of their 72-day marriage.  For a look at his Annulment complaint, click here :   Kardashian v. Humphries, December 6, 2011

NEW JERSEY ANNULMENT DIVORCE MARRIAGE LAWYER MEDIATOR ARBITRATOR

 
Does the wife have grounds for an annulment, if the husband admits to (1) having "fathered" at least 75 children [and possibly as many 140] through premarital artificial insemination and (2) not having informed the wife before their marriage ?     ABA Journal, September 30, 2011

CRESSKILL TEANECK ENGLEWOOD CLIFFSIDE PARK BERGEN COUNTY NJ DIVORCE MEDIATION ATTORNEY

 
He claimed they were never legally married. But the New Jersey divorce judge correctly rejected this contention.     Prosser v. Bagby, New Jersey App. Div., January 4, 2011

BERGEN AND UNION COUNTY NEW JERSEY ANNULMENT DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

He married her solely to obtain U.S. citizenship, without telling her he had been married twice before and engaged 4 times. He also lied about his income, his job, where he lived, his sexual orientation and his religion. She got her annulment.    Khan v. Khan, N.Y. Supreme Court, March 11, 2010

NEW JERSEY DIVORCE : ANNULMENT & THE 5th AMENDMENT

In husband's appeal of the New Jersey divorce judge's order granting a dual New Jersey judgment of divorce and dismissing his claim for an annulment, the judge erred in suggesting and then allowing wife to assert her 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination because her testimony was also being given in support of her counterclaim for divorce. By testifying, wife waived any protection afforded by the privilege. Additionally, she improperly asserted the privilege because she failed to show she faced potential criminal prosecution based on her testimony. By doing so, the judge permitted her to avoid meaningful cross-examination by husband on the issue of the validity of the marriage, the ultimate issue in the case.        Attor v. Attor, ___ N.J. Super. ___(App. Div. 2006); New Jersey App. Div.; April 6, 2006

NEW JERSEY ANNULMENT

A judge has granted a New Jersey annulment to a woman who unwittingly "married" a serial fraud artist. Joyce Reynolds was legally freed from what she thought was her 2001 marriage to William Michael Barber, a purported doctor who turned out to be a convicted con man and liar. Reynolds met Barber over the Internet, and he claimed to be a cardiovascular pediatric surgeon taking a sabbatical. They married a few weeks after he showed up in New Jersey to meet her. This summer, she learned that he tricked other women with lies of being a former NFL player, a cancer survivor, an Army hero and former POW. Judge Robert E. McCarthy, sitting in Morristown, granted the 49-year-old Wharton woman's request for an annulment from Barber, who married her on January 19, 2001, under the name James Michael Barber and added 6 years to his real birth date.      Morristown Daily Record, October 13, 2005