New Jersey Family Law

MONTCLAIR VERONA BLOOMFIELD MILLBURN ESSEX COUNTY NJ DIVORCE MEDIATOR LIFE INSURANCE

The defendant was unwilling or unable to produce a copy of the life insurance policy he was required to maintain under the parties' New Jersey divorce agreement. This failure led to an appropriate award of counsel fees against him.      Yasika f/k/a Saunderson v. Saunderson, New Jersey App. Div., February 16, 2012

ESSEX BERGEN MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

This New Jersey post-divorce dispute between parents concerned health insurance coverage for their daughter and payment for her uncovered medical expenses.      Schmidt v. Schmidt, New Jersey App. Div., February 1, 2012

TEANECK ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS RAMSEY ORADELL BERGEN COUNTY NJ DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

Here's useful information for New Jersey divorcing couples regarding post-divorce medical and health insurance coverage :  December 2, 2011

HACKENSACK BERGEN COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE LIFE INSURANCE MEDIATION ARBITRATION LITIGATION ATTORNEY

 
Although a New Jersey divorce judge has the power to order the parties to maintain life insurance on their lives, the amount of coverage must be reasonably related to the amounts of alimony and child support.         

Brady-Rosenstrauch v. Rosenstrauch, New Jersey App. Div., July 12, 2011

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS HAWORTH HACKENSACK BERGEN COUNTY NJ DIVORCE LAWYER MEDIATOR ARBITRATOR

 
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:34-25, New Jersey divorce judges have the power to order an alimony payor to maintain life insurance to secure payment of the support in question.    Starr. v. Starr, New Jersey App. Div., April 13, 2011

DIVORCE INSURANCE LAWYER MEDIATION NEW JERSEY ESSEX COUNTY

There's insurance for everything else : why not for divorce?    MSN Money, August 9, 2010

RINGWOOD LITTLE FALLS WEST MILFORD PASSAIC COUNTY NEW JERSEY MEDIATION LAWYER

Parties to a New Jersey divorce are often called on to obtain life insurance to secure the payment of either alimony or child support. Here, the father was ordered by the New Jersey divorce judge to maintain $150,000 of life insurance on his life for child support purposes.       Zahl v. Zahl, New Jersey App. Div., April 23, 2010

MORRISTOWN MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE ATTORNEY

 A New Jersey grand jury has indicted the mayor of Carlstadt, New Jersey and his former wife on charges they stole medical insurance benefits. Mayor William Roseman and his ex-wife, Lori Lewin, were divorced in July of 2000. They are charged with failing to notify authorities within 60 days of the divorce, and allowing her to remain on the borough's benefits plan. The pair face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.    June 1, 2009

SUMMIT DIVORCE MEDIATION

The husband was killed by a hit-and-run driver as he walked to his aunt’s house to see if he could spend the night there. During apparently frequent periods of marital strife, the husband would routinely leave the marital home and go to stay with his parents or other relatives, but would inevitably return to the marital home in NY. He had been staying with his parents, sleeping on their couch, prior to the night in question; he had brought no clothing with him, and did not express an intent to stay and reside there. Neither the widow nor her husband had an automobile and, consequently, the only uninsured motorist coverage that would be available would be from his parents’ carrier if, as the widow urges, her husband was found to be a member of his parents’ household at the time of the accident. On the facts presented, the court enters judgment for the defendant insurance carrier, determining that he was not . There is nothing to suggest that the husband’s use of his parents’ couch was anything more than another temporary cooling off period before his inevitable return to his wife and children. Estate of Welch, etc., et al. v. State Farm Ins., et al., New Jersey Law Div., February 8, 2007

MORRISTOWN DIVORCE MEDIATION

The deceased ex-husband should have maintained the life insurance policy on his life, called for under the parties' New Jersey judgment of divorce. Therefore, the ex-wife's motion for a $300,000 judgment against the defendant (the Estate of the late husband) for failure to provide the insurance was properly granted, for benefit of the parties’ unemancipated daughter, even though the Estate had a pending coverage suit against the insurer.  Weiss, etc. v. Estate of Robinson, Deceased, New Jersey App. Div., January 11, 2007