MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

In 2016, the New Jersey Supreme Court addressed the important issue of grandparent/sibling visitation in Major v. Maguire, 224 N.J. 1 (2016). In this matter, one parent of the child passed away and the remaining, living parent cut off the grandparents from the child....
MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

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You want to dissolve your Final Restraining Order (hereinafter “FRO”). It’s been YEARS since it’s been entered. In fact, you even communicate with the other part and you are confident that he/she no longer “fears” you as they might have once had. You are ready to file...
MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

LICHTER V. LICHTER

In a recent unpublished decision, the Appellate Division addressed the issue of emancipation and how that relates, in part, to college expenses. In Lichter v. Lichter, 2017 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1532 (App. Div. 2017), the Court reviewed a limited record from the...
MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

Henneberry v. Henneberry

Paying permanent Alimony? Thinking about retiring? Hoping to terminate alimony as a result? If you said yes to all of the questions above, then you may want to become acquainted with Henneberry v. Henneberry, an unpublished Appellate Division case that was decided...
MAJOR v. MAGUIRE

Relocation in the wake of Bisbing

Calendar year 2017 brought with it one of the most marked changes in recent history by way of New Jersey’s Supreme Court decision Bisbing v. Bisbing, 230 N.J. 3019 (2017). The Bisbing case overturned nearly seventeen (17) year’s worth of case law, shifting the...