Emancipation – Middlesex Monmouth Union Ocean County NJ In a published decision issued by the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court on April 13, 2015, the court agreed with a trial court judge that a 20 year woman who had left her mother’s home and began living with her biological father was legally… Read more »

Grandparents Visitation Rights | Monmouth County, NJ   On April 10, 2015, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided, in the case of M.K. and L.K. v. A.K., that the paternal grandparents of two children, whose father had died suddenly, should be entitled to visitation with the grandchildren over the objection of the children’s mother. The… Read more »

On April 1, 2015, the Superior Court of NJ, Appellate Division ruled in the case of O.P. v. L.G-P. that a judge may not order a divorced couple to mediate post-divorce disputes when a final restraining order (FRO) had been entered barring contact between the parties sometime after the parties were divorced, even though the… Read more »

Divorce Dependency Exemptions Monmouth County, NJ This is income tax filing season. For divorced and separated parents, the question of who can take the dependency exemptions often arises. According to IRS rules, only one taxpayer may claim a dependency exemption for a child for a tax year. The general rule is that a child is… Read more »