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Tips for Calculating Child Support in New Jersey
| 13-Apr-2015Categories: Child Support, Family LawWhen getting a divorce or determining custody, one of the most highly contentious and often complicated issues is determining an appropriate child support amount. Overall, the payment of child support...
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The Best Interest Standard
| 26-Feb-2015Categories: Child Custody, Child Support, Child Visitation, Divorce, Family Law, Parenting TimeWhen determining custody and visitation, the court will determine what is in the "best interest" of the child or children. It has been said that the best interest standard is...
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Divorced Parents Must Pay Estranged Daughter’s College Tuition
| 09-Dec-2014Categories: Child Support, Family LawIt has been reported that divorced parents are required to pay $16,000 toward their estranged daughter's college tuition. Apparently, the parents have not seen their daughter in two years after...
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NJ Mandatory Parents’ Education Program
| 20-Oct-2014Categories: Child Support, Child Visitation, Family LawEvery person that files for divorce where custody, visitation or support of a minor child is an issue is required to attend a Parents' Education Program. There is a mandatory...
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Ocean County Judge Publishes Opinion on College Contribution
| 17-Jun-2014Categories: Child Support, Divorce, Equitable Distribution, Family LawOcean County Family Judge Lawrence R. Jones has written another excellent published decision in the case of Black v. Black. The case deals with the ever complex issue of college...
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NJ Court Memo Updates Incarceration Protocols for Non-Payment of Child Support
| 16-Apr-2014Categories: Child Support, Family LawThe Acting Administrative Director of the Courts, Judge Glenn A. Grant, issued a memorandum detailing the steps that trial courts must take with respect to incarcerating individuals for non-payment of...
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Child Support Adjustment for Shared Parenting Arrangements
| 15-Apr-2014Categories: Child Support, Family LawMore parents are entering into shared parenting arrangements for custody and visitation. Even when the parties have completely equal parenting time with the children, there is still a child support...
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Divorced Father Ordered to Pay for Law School
| 26-Mar-2014Categories: Child Support, Family LawThe Appellate Division has affirmed the trial court decision that a divorced father must pay for one half of his daughter's law school tuition in the amount of $112,500. When...
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Emancipation
| 27-Jan-2014Categories: Child Support, Family LawIn order to end your child support obligation, your child must be declared emancipated. This is not automatically done. If you and the other parent both agree that the child...
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Imputation of Income
| 09-Dec-2013Categories: Alimony, Child Support, Family LawWhen determining an obligation for child support and alimony, the court must determine what each party's income is. Sometimes a person is unemployed or only working part-time. The court will...
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