Divorce in New Jersey


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Getting a divorce in New Jersey can be a complicated process. The second edition of this guide has been carefully put together to make it as helpful as possible for those who want to get a divorce on their own. The 270-page manual explains how to file for divorce in New Jersey based on irreconcilable differences, separation, desertion, or extreme cruelty. It includes the forms and letters needed for filing.







You and the Law in New Jersey


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What are your rights if you are fired from your job? What should you do if you are a crime victim or witness? How can you fight a child custody battle? What can you do if your landlord refuses to provide you with heat in the winter? You and the Law in New Jersey, newly updated, is the ideal guidebook to assist readers in understanding the law, their rights, and how to get legal help. In clear, straightforward language, the book describes how law is made, how to do legal research, how the state and federal court systems work, how to get help if you can't afford a lawyer, how to hire a lawyer, and what to do if you are sued. The second edition contains much new information, including a chapter on credit, debt, and banking, and others on the rights of senior citizens, veterans, and people with disabilities. The authors have also expanded their information on the rights of renters, homeowners, and consumers of public utilities, as well as their treatment of employment law. They have rewritten chapters on health and public benefits to address the recent sweeping reforms of federal and state law. Other topics include family matters such as marriage, divorce, adoption, and domestic violence; the landlord-tenant relationship and buying a home; consumer rights; the criminal justice system; and citizen involvement in environmental law.




A Guide to Contested Divorce in New Jersey


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A Guide to Contested Divorce in New Jersey Does your divorce involve a high degree of disagreement and conflict? A Guide to Contested Divorce in New Jersey has the information you need to help you reach a fair settlement and finally move on with your life. In clear, empowering language, Bari Z. Weinberger offers readers the opportunity to:* Learn the first steps involved in the contested divorce process, including case management conferences and participating in a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panel (MESP).* Find out what goes on in the courtroom during a divorce trial.* Understand the factors used by courts in determining case track assignments and trial dates. * Gain valuable tips for making a good impression in all your courtroom dealings. Discover options available to change your contested divorce into an uncontested divorce.What readers are saying..."You can't walk into a divorce trial cold. If there's even a hint that there could be a fight over some of the issues in your divorce, read this guide." T.H., Bergen CountyAbout the Author: Noted family law attorney Bari Z. Weinberger, Esq. is the founder and managing partner of Weinberger Law Group, the largest law firm in New Jersey solely devoted to divorce and family law matters.www.weinbergerlawgroup.com




Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce


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If you are going to choose only one book to read as you navigate your divorce, choose Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce—the one guide that everyone going through divorce should have. The book will support readers in avoiding conflict while protecting their financial situation and relationships with children. It is thorough, easy to read, and updated with the most current information.




File for Divorce in New Jersey


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Going through a divorce is emotionally and financially challenging, but an understanding of how the process works and what forms you need to fill out can make it easier. File for Divorce in New Jersey provides the latest information and necessary forms to ease your divorce process. See why this is the #1 divorce manual in New Jersey.




The Self-Help Guide to the Law


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Self-Help Guides to the Law™ explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, contracts, family law, criminal law and constitutional law and procedure. With detailed references to sources for readers wishing to delve deeper, the Guides are ideal for readers wishing to better understand their legal rights and responsibilities, regardless of whether they ultimately opt to hire a lawyer. In addition to The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Contracts, Landlord-Tenant Relations, Marriage, Divorce, Personal Injury, Negligence, Constitutional Rights and Criminal Law for Non-Lawyers, readers may acquire the following individual titles: - The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Property Law and Landlord-Tenant Relations for Non-Lawyers - The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Contracts for Non-Lawyers - The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Negligence and Personal Injury Law for Non-Lawyers - The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Know Your Constitutional Rights The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Criminal Law and Procedure for Non-Lawyers




Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.




Boomer's Guide to Divorce (and a New Life)


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Straight-up advice from a divorced boomer. While boomers grew up watching solid marriages like those of the Ricardos, the Cleavers, and the Petries, they also learned that marriages sometimes don't work out, and that the real-life effects-emotional and financial-are no laughing matter. For those who are ending marriages and starting over-while coping at the same time with teenaged children, aging parents, looming retirement, health and fitness concerns, and other midlife issues, this book offers valuable advice on: Deciding whether you really want out Setting yourself up for a "good" divorce, rather than a bitter one Finding an attorney-and an accountant Dealing with your family and friends-who gets custody of whom after a long- term marriage? Getting through the minefields of the legal process (there are complications even in "no fault" divorce) Starting over again-establishing credit, finding insurance coverage, and more




Tough Cases


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“Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation. . . . Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.” —Justin Driver, The Washington Post A rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases—Law and Order from behind the bench—including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy—all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It's the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them. In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance U.S. law with tribal law, a young Korean American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman who has killed her own children. Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.