New Jersey Family Law

CEDAR GROVE SHORT HILLS WEST ORANGE GLEN RIDGE ESSEX COUNTY NJ DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

New Jersey divorce judges have the judicial discretion to grant or deny a jury trial in matrimonial tort cases, permitting or rejecting bifurcation, depending on legal issues such as whether child welfare, child support and child parenting are implicated.     Sklar, f/k/a Wolfson v. Wolfson , New Jersey App. Div., January 24, 2013

PREGNANCY FRAUD TERMINATION ABORTION DAMAGES BREACH NEW JERSEY MEDIATOR LAWYER ARBITRATION

"Plaintiff's decision to have an abortion may have been influenced by defendant, but she made the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy. Under the law and public policy, there is no cause of action for terminating one's pregnancy and then regretting the decision due to subsequent events. In other words, plaintiff's claim is damnum absque injuria – a wrong for which there is no remedy."      R.P. v. B.Y., New Jersey App. Div., October 4, 2012

HUDSON ESSEX PASSIAC COUNTIES NEW JERSEY DIVORCE MEDIATOR LAWYER ARBITRATOR

 
During a New Jersey divorce action, stealth snooping, such as use of a planted GPS device, may result in a separate lawsuit for invasion of privacy.      Villanova v. Innovative, etc. et al., August 29, 2011

SECAUCUS KEARNY JERSEY CITY HOBOKEN HUDSON COUNTY NJ DIVORCE PRIVATE DETECTIVE MEDIATION LAWYER

 
A New Jersey court just ruled GPS tracking may not be an invasion of privacy. A New Jersey woman hid a GPS device inside her husband's car so her private investigator could follow the cheating husband. After he was caught with another woman, he sued the PI for invasion of privacy, but the court ruled against him.     MyFoxNY, July 7, 2011

HACKENSACK BERGEN COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE MEDIATION ATTORNEY

 
A jury has awarded a woman $6.7 million against her ex-boyfriend for inflicting her with herpes. In another case, a wife was awarded $2.49 million against her husband for the same tort.    Findlaw, March 17, 2011

MONTCLAIR SOUTH ORANGE LIVINGSTON ESSEX COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE LAWYER MEDIATOR

"...we do not foreclose the possibility that a cause of action may be brought alleging facts that are 'so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community'" ...cases involving prolonged parental abduction, where children are intentionally removed to foreign jurisdictions for the purpose of frustrating the innocent parent's custodial rights, or intentional false accusations of parent/child sexual abuse, are but two examples of factual scenarios that may satisfy the outrageous conduct requirement..."       Segal v. Lynch, New Jersey App. Div.,    N.J. Super.     (App. Div. 2010); May 7, 2010