Category Archives: Family Law

Joseph C. Noto, a Bergen County divorce lawyer, wants parents that have an agreement regarding custody and relocation of their children outside of the state of NJ of this very recent published case. A divorced parent need not have a job lined up in order to move with her child out of state, a state judge held in a ruling approved for publication Monday. “The most practical and relevant inquiry is not whether the moving parent has a guaranteed job, but rather whether she has a reasonable plan for providing the child in her care with an economically stable home in the new state,” Ocean County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones said in Benjamin v. Benjamin, FM-15-1212-08-N. Joseph C. Noto hopes this helps a parent wishing to leave the state of N.J. with a child.

FAMILY LAW
Joseph C. Noto, a Bergen County divorce attorney, wants you to know that a recent case, decided by the NJ Court of Appeals, in Maeker v. Ross, App. Div. (Sapp-Peterson, J.A.D.) (24 pp.) reversed the trial court ruling that the 2010 amendment to the Statute of Frauds, N.J.S.A. 25:1-5(b), requiring a writing memorializing palimony agreements and the independent advice of counsel for each party in advance of executing the agreement, applies only to palimony agreements entered after the Jan. 18, 2010, effective date of the amendment. It held the amendment is enforcement legislation, which addresses under what circumstances enforcement of palimony agreements may be enforced irrespective of when the purported agreement may have been entered. This may apply to you or a friend.