We are many days into the COVID-19 crisis and the Stay at Home Orders barring all non-essential travel. The kitchen table is now repurposed as the work-home-office, the new-distance-learning- school and maybe even used to eat once in a while. Kids are home. Parents are home. Sports are canceled. Walking out to get the mailRead more
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Earlier this week, my colleague Drew Molotsky, wrote a blog about his experience as a seasoned attorney having his first Zoom Court hearing. I also had my first Zoom Court hearing this week as well and my experience echoes his, but, we are attorneys. We often in Court, if never before virtually and while aRead more
Vicinage 15 – More well-known to the general public as Gloucester, Cumberland, and Salem County Courthouses is adopting a new way of conducting proceedings. Read on below to learn more about the impact of the current public health emergency on family court matters. In the midst of the constantly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, we are allRead more
There are certain concepts and phrases we hear a lot in this practice. A common one is that the other parent/spouse/party won’t “let” someone do something, which initiates a family law issue. That could be seeing their children, using marital money, or any other number of issues. The most common complaints usually fall into twoRead more
The role of Child Protection & Permanency in New Jersey One of the scariest things that can happen is the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) arriving at your door to investigate an allegation of abuse or neglect related to your children. The role of DCPP is very specific. Their job is to investigateRead more
Communication is a tricky matter to begin with and let’s be honest (co-parenting makes it trickier), we have all had plenty of experience with miscommunication and resulting misunderstanding, sometimes through no fault of our own and sometimes it falls squarely on us. Tone, manner, volume, emotion or lack thereof, non-verbal cues like facial expression, pursedRead more
Holidays can be very stressful—there seems like an endless list of tasks to complete, gifts to buy, gifts to wrap, parties to host, parties to attend, goodies to bake, cards to address and send all to make the holidays, whatever you may celebrate, the BEST TIME OF THE YEAR!!Read more
The holidays are upon us and it’s time to talk about holiday sharing between parents. The holidays are a special time of family traditions, good cheer, yummy foods and generosity of spirit. Does the same extend to sharing the holidays with children in no longer together families? Not always.Read more
If you ask someone the first thing that they think of when you say “custody” they usually respond with “battle”. There is certainly a perception that custody is almost always a “battle”. While that can be true, it is not always the case.Read more
Steve Urkel on the old sitcom “Family Matters” was often heard saying “Did I do that?” When Urkel did it, it was scripted, make-believe and designed for a laugh. However, there is a much different context in which this phrase comes up more often than many people ever realize: Domestic Violence. Although domestic violence hasRead more