This article was originally published in the February 2017 issue of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, a publication of the NJ State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission. Stretching the Boundaries of Parental Rights and Responsibilities.
Defined Benefit Pensions: The evolution of advocacy concerning what is often the most valuable marital asset.
This article was originally published in the June 2015 issue of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, a publication of the NJ State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission. Defined Benefit Pensions: The evolution of advocacy concerning what is often the most valuable marital asset.
The Impact of Changes in DCPP Investigatory Findings
This article was originally published in the August 2014 issue of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, a publication of the NJ State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission. The Impact of Changes in DCPP Investigatory Findings
DCPP 101: What Happens When Allegations of Child Abuse are Reported to DCPP?
This article was originally published in the February 2020 issue of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, a publication of the NJ State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission. DCPP 101: What Happens When Allegations of Child Abuse are Reported to DCPP?
How do lawyers charge or calculate how to charge for probates?
A probate is the court proceeding wherein the deceased’s property is distributed according to the terms of his or her last will and testament, or according to law if there was no will. Typically, in New Jersey, there is a probate lawyer who helps with the court proceeding who charges for the probate of an […]
What is a living trust?
A living trust is a separate legal entity that you (the “grantor”) create while you are alive and as the grantor, you sign the trust document, providing yourself the opportunity to fund the trust. You get a federal ID number, akin to a social security number for the trust, to open accounts with banks or […]
What is a holographic will?
A holographic will is a will handwritten by the person (the “testator”)preparing his or her last will and testament. The holographic will can be informal – a testator can make one on the back of an envelope – but it has to be in ink and in the handwriting of a testator where it identifies […]
Verbal Bequests in New Jersey
Q: Do I have any rights to property such as a car that was promised to me upon someone’s death but wasn’t written into the will? The answer is no. If the promised was documented somehow and he delivered the title to you before he died and signed the title, then the gift may be […]
New Jersey Will Contests
Q: What are typical reasons why someone might contest a will in New Jersey? The most common grounds are either lack of testamentary capacity at the time the will was executed or a claim of undue influence on the testator by people who surrounded the person who created the will (the “testator”) at the time […]
What is a living will?
There was a well-known case in the late 1970s in New Jersey, in fact in Sussex County, involving a woman named Karen Ann Quinlan [In re Quinlan, 70 NJ 10 (1976)]. At the time, there was no advance directive in New Jersey. She was a young woman who overdosed at a party and slipped into […]
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