Family Law Blog for Sarno da Costa D'Aniello Maceri LLC

In L.I.B. v. D.M.B., the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the trial court’s decision to enter a final restraining order against the ex-husband for harassing and…

This week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Moffitt v. Moffitt, in which the ex-husband appealed an order that required him to pay…

After giving birth to twin girls, a mother in the case T.M. v. A.S. sought child support from the man she believed to be the…

In issuing the judgment of divorce in Terry v. Terry, the trial judge made two interesting decisions when dividing up the marital property.  First, he decided…

The New Jersey Appellate Division recently decided N.J. Div. of Child Protection and Permanency v. M.H.  When a man went to pick his three daughters up…

While grandparents may play a big role in the lives of their grandchildren, a parent may object to the grandparents’ involvement.  Unless the kids would…

There are fourteen different acts that constitute domestic violence under N.J.S.A. § 2C:25-19(a).  Domestic violence is often thought of as the use of physical force, but…

Last week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Yannuzzi v. Yannuzzi.  After a couple with three kids got divorced in 2004, they entered into…

After the trial court in a divorce case Perry v. Jones awarded the wife a lump sum of $50,000 as “additional child support,” the husband appealed the…

In the midst of a divorce, the couple in Mantle v. Mantle entered into a voluntary consent agreement.  One provision of the agreement stated that neither party…