Tag: Family Court
The Importance of Alternatives to Courts During a Pandemic
Since the global pandemic and discovery of COVID-19 in March 2020, our everyday lives have been upended, forcing an adjustment to a new normal that we could not have anticipated. The same holds true for divorcing families and how Courts, judges, lawyers and clients have handled issues in divorce and family law. There are many […]
Self-Emancipation of a Teenager
In Ort v. Ort, 428 N.J. Super. 290 (Ch. Div. 2012), the parties’ daughter sought a formal Order of emancipation from both of her parents. She retained her own attorney and asserted that she wished to be emancipated from her parents so that she could legally be her own person and make her own independent […]