By: Lindsey Moskowitz MedvinNational Adoption Day falls on the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving every year. Our Courts and communities come together to finalize thousands of adoptions. The day raises awareness of the number of children in foster care who are waiting to find permanent families. The hope is always that children in foster care will [...]
Attorney Lindsey Moskowitz Medvin didn’t let a pandemic prevent her from presenting at a Career Day at Marlboro Elementary School in Marlboro, New Jersey. When the schools shut down, the school administration worked hard to be able to turn career day into a virtual event for the students and it was a huge success! [...]
By: Janine Danks Fox | Parenting Coordinator/Mediator In the best of circumstances, co-parenting can be difficult. Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the challenges of co-parenting. Now more than ever, it is critical that parents put their disputes aside with the mutual goal of ensuring that their children are protected from parental disputes. [...]
By: Lindsey Moskowitz Medvin Very often the first piece of information that we have about a person is their name. A name helps you to form an identity. Under current law, an adult can request a name change as they desire, but who decides whether it is appropriate to change a child’s name? Historically, [...]
An Article by: Janine Danks Fox, Esq. In September of 2014, N.J.S.A. § 2A:34-23 was amended to clarify the standard that New Jersey Courts must rely upon to terminate or modify alimony upon a prospective or actual retirement. Subsection (j) of the statute delineates different standards, identified as j(1), j(2) and j(3), each of [...]
In a precedent setting decision, Fawzy v. Fawzy, 199 N.J. 456 (2009), Brian Paul successfully convinced the New Jersey Supreme Court that parents in New Jersey should be permitted to utilize binding, non-appealable arbitration, with a decision maker of their choice, as a means of resolving custody and parenting time disputes. Arbitration is a process where litigants choose a [...]
Levine v. Bacon In Levine v. Bacon, 152 N.J. 436 (1998), the firm successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court that a custodial father’s attempt to relocate from New Jersey to Florida with his minor child would be contrary to the best interest of the child, inasmuch as the move would substantially interfere with [...]
Brian G. Paul won a reversal in the Appellate Division on a precedent-setting interstate child support case. Under Pennsylvania law, a child becomes emancipated on the latter of their 18th birthday or their graduation from high school, meaning there is no obligation for parents to contribute to college expenses. In contrast, New Jersey courts have [...]
Hughes v. Hughes In the landmark case of Hughes v. Hughes, 311 N.J.Super. 15 (App. Div. 1998), the firm changed the standard for setting alimony in the State of New Jersey when it successfully argued before the Appellate Division that a marriage of 10 years is not a short term marriage under today’s standards, [...]
Weaver v. Weaver In Weaver v. Weaver, Brian G. Paul successfully convinced the Appellate Division that in an intermediate length marriage, such as the 10 year marriage in Hughes v. Hughes and the 12 year marriage in Weaver, the Trial Court must be required to analyze what actually occurred to both spouses during their marriage in order [...]
