M.G. v. S.M., 457 N.J. Super. 286 (App. Div. 2018).  As Judge Mawla stated in his opinion in this case today, “[i]ncreasingly, executive compensation has been achieved through means other than salary and retirement assets.”  Today’s opinion relates to one ...

Bermeo v. Bermeo, 457 N.J. Super. 77 (App. Div. 2018).  Today is the second consecutive day on which Judge Firko released a published opinion.  The essence of it is that when parties to a divorce matter negotiate and carefully draft ...

Abdelkader v. Hosny, 2018 WL 3579897 (App. Div. July 26, 2018).  In State in Interest of N.P., 453 N.J. Super. 480 (App. Div. 2018), discussed here, Judge Messano discussed the purpose of Rule 2:5-6(c).  That rule, which allows a trial ...

Giarusso v. Giarusso, 455 N.J. Super. 42 (App. Div. 2018).  This opinion by Judge Geiger today involved an application for attorneys’ fees in a matrimonial matter by a well-known North Jersey firm.  The firm had represented the plaintiff wife in ...

The Supreme Court announced four more cases that will come before it.  The subject matters, and the paths that the cases took to reach the Court, are quite varied. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ...

State of New Jersey in the Interest of N.P., 453 N.J. Super. 480 (App. Div. 2018).  This decision by Judge Messano addresses four appeals involving seven different juveniles. The broad issue presented was “whether a juvenile complaint charging a crime ...

Due to an unusual amount of business travel (alas, only to three cold-weather locations) and a hefty appellate brief, I have not been able to keep up with the courts in recent weeks.  Here is a belated, and far from ...

M.C. v. G.T., 452 N.J. Super. 509 (App. Div. 2018).  Judge Fisher used no more words than necessary in his five-page opinion on this appeal.  Plaintiff filed a complaint against defendant under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:25-17 ...

Bisbing v. Bisbing, 230 N.J. 309 (2017).  Justice Patterson began her opinion in this case, for a unanimous Court, as follows.  “This appeal arises from a trial court’s post-judgment determination authorizing a mother to relocate with her children out of ...

Several days out of the office last week, and work on a large appellate brief, have left me well behind our appellate courts, who have produced a number of decisions in that interim.  To try to catch up, here are ...