Assuming the parties to a divorce action are able to reach a resolution of their issue, such resolution is usually written upon a document celled a Property Settlement Agreement. A Property Settlement Agreement usually covers each and every issue that the parties have reached resolution on, signed by the parties, and becomes a binding contract…
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Either before or after the filing a complaint, parties to a divorce action are encouraged to undergo a process called Mediation. Mediation is an informal procedure where the parties, with or without their attorneys, sit before an independent third party called Mediator and discuss the situation in order to see whether or not they can…
After the complaint has been filed, and the answer has been filed with or without a counterclaim, the parties then engage in a process which called Discovery. Now discovery can include several things including interrogatories, depositions, and in matrimonial cases filing the case information statements. Interrogatories are procedures by which each party gets to ask…
Once the complaint has filed, the plaintiff – that’s the person who files the complaint – has an obligation to serve the summons and complaint upon the defendant, and that’s called a Service process. In New Jersey, service process can be done by a number of different means. Sometimes that’s in person, sometimes that’s by…
A Divorce action in the state of New Jersey starts with the filing of a complaint. A complaint basically sets force certain factual information about the parties, such as their names, their addresses, their dates of birth, date of marriage, etc, the number of the children born of the marriage including their names and dates…
