Family

In a thorough and detailed opinion, the New Jersey appellate division in the June 18, 2009 published opinion in Crespo v. Crespo, overturned a Hudson county trial court decision that the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:25-17 to  -35 (“Act”) was unconstitutional, a decision that should come as no surprise in the light of previous case law upholding it. See Roe v. Roe,  253 N.J. Super. 418,  427 (App. Div. 1992).
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In the June 16, 2009 published appellate opinion in Hadfield v. The Prudential Insurance Company, the ex-wife argued that she was entitled to proceeds from a life insurance policy for her divorced ex-husband because she had been named as the beneficiary prior to divorce, the beneficiary designation had not been changed post-divorce and the parties had agreed they would each remain as beneficiaries on each other’s life insurance until they remarried.

The parents of Ryan... Read More

Approximately 200 nations have signed on to an international  treaty known as the Hague Convention on child abduction, which treaty requires the country where a child is taken to ( regardless of whether the child is taken by a biological parent or not) to return the child to his/ her country of origin.

A central purpose of the treaty is to prevent parents from abducting their children from one country and taking their children to another country hoping that the new country... Read More