When you have a real estate closing in New Jersey, a number of things may hinge on your closing date (other than the closing itself). You may need access to money from the funding from the sale if you are the seller. You may need to close on a given date, so that you...

In an uncertain economy, for many people who have alimony obligations, there is a good chance that the length of time they need to pay alimony will end up being a lot longer than they are employed in their current job. Rarely do people plan to be unemployed, or have a...

When you get divorced, there may be a lot of concerns about how the kids will be raised, when they are living with the other parent. When it comes to what religion the child will be raised in, it is difficult, if not impossible, to have a child be one religion when he...

Let's say that you are buying a house, and as you are getting close to a closing date, your attorney tells you that selling your home (or buying the other one) will be a problem because there is a lien on the property. What is a lien, and can you still buy or sell a...

When you ask people who did their real estate closing, or who handled it, some will mention real estate attorneys. But others will mention title or closing companies. But if a title company can handle a real estate closing, why use an attorney? What is a Title Company...

When kids turn 18, or when they are done with high school, they are legally adults. However, the needs of a child do not actually end just because he or she is 18—and that is especially true for kids going to college, and all the expenses that go with it, including...

If you are getting divorced, you probably know that the court will make some kind of determination about your children’s living, visitation, and custody schedule. But what about your other “kids”—the ones with fur, feathers, tails and whiskers? Yes, our pets are our...

One common concern for people in a divorce is that the other spouse will hide assets or income. However, it is harder than you may think to do that, and a good divorce attorney has ways of finding assets that the other spouse attempts to hide. Disclosures Lead to...

Let’s say that one day your family law lawyer calls you and says that your spouse has offered to go to mediation, to try to resolve the issues in your divorce or custody case, or even in a post-judgment modification case. Do you accept that offer? What are the pros...

Although we live in an age when social media seems to be everywhere and an accepted part of our society. But despite its prevalence, many people still treat social media as a different world, and somewhere that is private, and not related to our real world. Nowhere is...