Clark New Jersey Family Law Blog

Domestic violence affects many victims throughout New Jersey. While some victims may carry the tell-tale signs of abuse on their bodies, others may suffer emotional and psychological harm from their tormentors and may appear perfectly fine to those around them. Both men and women can be victims of domestic violence, and both men and women can be perpetrators of harm on members of their families and households.

It can be hard for a victim of domestic violence to take action to end the pattern of violence in their life, but one option that they may have is to get a protective order issued. A protective order limits the amount of contact a domestic violence perpetrator may have with their victim and imposes penalties on that perpetrator if they violate the orders' terms.

A marital agreement is an important legal document for individuals who wish to protect their assets and make financially sound decisions about their wealth. In New Jersey, individuals can enter into marital agreements before their weddings, but they can also create postnuptial agreements if they wish to wait until they have said, "I do". The Law Office of Robert Ricci is available to support clients with these and other family law issues.

Marital agreements allow people to openly discuss the significant financial matters that will affect their legal relationships. When people come into new marriages with assets, commitments to children from prior relationships or business interests, they may have concerns about what will happen in the event that their new unions end in divorce. Marital agreements allow them to establish the rules by which such issues will be dealt with.

When a New Jersey resident decides that they want to do something, they may hope to accomplish their goal as fast as possible. While some tasks can start and finish in a relatively short amount of time, others may require days, months or even years to fully finish before they may be considered completed. Though few divorces take multiple years to work through, divorces can last for months after their initial filings.

This is because there are many steps that must be finished before a divorce can be finalized. A party must file for divorce in order to start the process in the courts, and the opposing party must be given time to receive notice of the initial filing and submit their own response. The parties may need time to secure their own counselors and advocates and may wish to undertake valuations of their property prior to dividing it up.

Like many successful New Jersey entrepreneurs, it may have taken you years to bring your business dreams to fruition. Your business is an intensely personal issue. You're passionate about it; after all, you're the one who put in all those long hours and persevered through the ups and downs of the start-up phase until the glorious day arrived when you hung the "open" sign over the threshold.

Whether that sign is figurative because your business functions on the internet or you have a brick and mortar storefront, since the day you launched, you have nurtured your company as a parent nurtures a child. It's understandable that, since your spouse filed for divorce, you want to do whatever you can to protect your business interests.