The Three Most-Frequently Asked Questions About Property Distribution in New Jersey
1. How Do Assets Get Divided When People Get Divorced In New Jersey?
New Jersey is an “equitable distribution state.” This means that in a divorce in New Jersey, any property that is acquired during the marriage must be divided in an equitable manner. Equitable distribution does not necessarily mean an equal division of the marital assets although, more often than not, that is what happens.
2. What Are The Factors Used To Determine What Is Equitable?
The New Jersey Legislature has identified fifteen (15) specific factors:
- The duration of the marriage;
- The age and physical and emotional health of the parties;
- The income or property brought to the marriage by each party;
- The standard of living established during the marriage;
- Any written agreement made by the parties before or during the marriage concerning an arrangement of property distribution;
- The economic circumstances of each party at the time the division of property becomes effective;
- The income and earning capacity of each party, including educational background, training, employment skills, work experience, length of absence from the job market, custodial responsibilities for children, and the time and expense necessary to acquire sufficient education or training to enable the party to become self-supporting at a standard of living reasonably comparable to that enjoyed during the marriage;
- Each party’s contribution to the education, training or earning power of the other;
- Each party’s contribution to the acquisition, dissipation, preservation, depreciation or appreciation in the amount or value of the marital property, as well as the contribution of a party as a homemaker;
- The tax consequences of the proposed distribution to each party;
- The present value of the property;
- The need of a parent who has physical custody of a child to own or occupy the marital residence and to use or own the household effects;
- The debts and liabilities of the parties;
- The need for creation, now or in the future, of a trust fund to secure reasonably foreseeable medical or educational costs for a spouse or children;
- The extent to which a party deferred achieving his/her career goals.
The Legislature, however, expressly allows New Jersey courts to consider any other factors which the court may deem relevant.
3. Are There Any Categories Of Assets Which Are Excluded From Distribution?
Yes. Property acquired prior to the marriage, property acquired during the marriage as gifts from third parties or by inheritance, or property acquired after the filing of the divorce complaint from post-complaint efforts are all excluded.
However, if exempt property is co-mingled with marital property or is improved during the marriage, it may lose its exclusion.
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Buzzzzzzz
It’s been a while since i’ve posted anything, and i’m sad to tell you that my posting may be few and far between for a while. My husband and I have a few road trips that may need to be taken over the next couple of weeks, but we’re not sure if we’re going yet. With gas prices as high as they are it’s hard to talk ourselves into going. I know we’ll have to go at some point, but like I said we’re just not sure when. But enough on that subject. Even though my posting will be sporatic I still love to share my stories with everyone, and today I am going to tell you a quick story about my puppy. We were in our back yard the day before yesterday and I was simply sitting, and enjoying the sun. She found a perch in the corner by the fence and was perfectly content with it. All that was about to change. As I sat there in the shade observing the busteling tree of birds just outside our fence, my pup jumped up and began chasing something across the yard. I didn’t see anything and thought she may have found herself a grasshopper to play with. But then she started jumping in the air and biting, but still I didn’t see anything so I assumed maybe she was tormenting a butterfly. However, as she leaped into the air and bit at it for the last time she hit the ground screaming and pawing at her face. I of course jumped up and ran over to see what all the comotion was about. On the ground in front of her was the biggest bee i’ve seen in a long time and that’s when it dawned on me that she had been stung, in the mouth. I snatched her up and carried her inside. I grabbed the phone and proceeded to call the vet. I spoke with him breifly about what had happened and he instructed me to open her mouth and see if it was swollen. O.k. That didn’t sound too hard, or so I thought. Have you ever tried opening a dogs mouth, who didn’t want their mouth opened? It was a bit of a strugle but after realizing that I wasn’t going to hurt her mouth, she opened it without a problem. I looked in her mouth and saw where she had been stung. The bee managed to sting the top of her mouth. Ouch!! Although it looked painful, nothing else was swollen so the vet just told me to keep a good eye on her and said to call him if she began acting strange. I told him thankyou and hung up the phone. Well if you haven’t guessed already, she’s fine. I didn’t let her out of my sight for the rest of the day. I’m hoping that if she learned anything from all this it would be to leave bee’s alone. I don’t want either of us to go through that again!!!
News, news, news.
I have some news but first I must say that i’m rather disappointed. I logged on today with the full intent to upload a few more of the wonderful humming bird pictures that I have taken and for some reason they wont upload onto WordPress. Weird huh?? So I supose I will just go on and give my good news. My Papa (grandpa) is getting married. Yes you heard me correctly. My GRANDPA is getting MARRIED. My grandma died about 5 years back and it has been really hard on him, so i’m glad that he found someone who will help him finally be happy. He deserves it. The best part is that I get to do the photos at the wedding. This will be great. I’m excited but also a little nervous. I have to get nothing but great photos at papa’s wedding. It add a little bit of extra pressure when i’m doing something like this for family!!
A Time To Relax
As the title of this post suggests, this weekend was a time for my husband and I to relax a bit. We have been so busy the last few weeks that we haven’t had much time to just breathe!! With the climbing gas prices, and needing to replace a bit of equipment, we have been having a bit of financial stress. Everything will be o.k. I’m sure, it always is. Once the equipment is paid for I hopefully won’t have to worry about any big business expenses for a while. My husband had the idea of driving up to the lake to take some pictures and just relax, so that’s what we did. Surprisingly enough, we didn’t even take our fishing gear. We just snapped a few pictures, then sat back and looked at the scenery for a while. It was really relaxing and I couldn’t be more relaxed even if it is only Tuesday. To me it already seems like the week is over. But with the way things have been going I’m sure this is just the calm before the storm. The calm before a storm is always the most peaceful!!
What To Do??
There is one reason why I hate telling family members who don’t live here that we’re going to be going on vacation soon, and do you know what that reason is?? Stick around and i’ll explain.
I called my mom who lives about 100 miles from here and I told her that we are planning a quick trip, just to get out of the house for a couple days. I bet you can guess what she said “oh, honey. You have to come down and see me. I miss you!” I explained to her that we haven’t decided where to go yet, but that I would run the idea past my husband. I told her I would call her when we make up our minds.
Later that day my sister called; she lives down in Nevada. I told her that we were planning on a quick trip and I’m sure you can guess what she said “oh, you guys have to come see us. The kids miss you!” I told her the same thing that I told mom, that we hadn’t decided where to go yet and I would let her know when we did. I told her I would tell my husband that she wanted to see us too..
At that point I decided not to tell any other out of town family members of our plans. About an hour later my mother-in-law calls and says she heard that we were planning a vacation and I know at this point that you can guess what she said “oh hon, you guys need to come down and see my new place!”
So now we’re stuck. That is the reason that I hate having to tell out of town, or out of state family members that we won’t be here for a few days. Everyone wants us to come and see them. I’m being pulled in 3 directions at once. I do want to see my mom and dad of course, but I also really miss my 2 nephews and my niece. On the other hand, we haven’t seen his mom in almost a year and we miss her. So, I don’t know what to do. We don’t plan on going anywhere for about 2 weeks or so. I guess we’ll have to make a decision before then!! I’m not looking forward to explaining things to the people we don’t go see. That won’t go over well. Oh sis, we can’t come see you because we’re going to see mom!!! Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose we could just plan on going to whatever place is more photogenic!! I love taking pictures…
A Quick Note on an Earlier Post
This is a note about the post I wrote on April 15th titled “Family Party Getting Close.”
I wanted to give you an update. I did order the invitations from that website www.invitationconsultants.com after having my family members who are helping me with this check them out. I’m excited and I can’t wait for them to get here. We still have a couple months before the party, and one of my Aunts came up with this really cute idea for a little flower basket type of thing to be hung on the doors as we’re delivering the invitations. I don’t know where she learned how to make them but they’re cute, and they’re also really cheap to make. So, it wouldn’t be hard for us to make quite a few of them. As I said before, we still have a few months to really plan this out and make it happen so I’ll be writing quick posts on it every now and then to let you know how things are going!! This is going to be fun!
Family on the Road
So, my cousin and my Aunt are on the road. My Aunt is riding down there with my cousin (her daughter) and will be brought home by my grandpa. Everyone in our family calls him papa!! It’s something that was started back when I was a kid and it kind of stuck. It’s always worrisome when family is going to be on the road that long. I told my cousin that she better call me every evening when they stop for the night, and I told her she better call me the moment she arrives. I’m anxious to know she’s safe. I don’t think I explained this before, but my cousin is more like a sister to me. We spent every moment that we could together when we were children. Every summer, she would basically live at my house. I’m not exaggerating either. This is the first time that she and I will be apart for a long period of time, I can tell you right now that I miss her already. She and I spent more time together than me and my actual sister did. Yes, I have a sister. I don’t remember if I mentioned that either. She is 4 years older than me, and I remind her of it all the time. Don’t take any of this the wrong way, I love my real sister dearly too. Well, I’ll be sitting here waiting for the call this evening. I don’t have much planned. I don’t have a lot to do today, and it feels kind of nice. Actually, now that I’m thinking about her I might just call my sis…
Customer Unhappiness vs Owner Unhappiness
For me, if the customer is unhappy then I am unhappy. And if the customer just happens to be a family member that seems to make it worse. My Aunt approached me and said that she wanted some good family pictures before he daughter left for North Carolina. Her daughter’s boyfriend is in the Army and is getting back from his second tour in about a week, and at that point he is going to be stationed in N. Carolina for a while. So my cousin is moving there to be with him. I gladly agreed to take their family photos, they’re my family! My Aunt proclaimed that she wanted them to be outdoor photos, and she said she would call me when she was able to get all her kids together at once. I waited a few days and hadn’t heard anything so I gave her a call. She said they have been terribly busy and that she still wanted the photos but she didn’t know when they could squeeze it in. I told her to make sure and call me when she was ready and I would be there. 2 days before my cousin was supposed to leave and I still hadn’t hear anything, so I called again. My aunt said that everyone would be there this afternoon and that would be our chance to take the pictures. I drove to her house and at that point she explained that even though it was winter she would like to go to the park for the photos. I didn’t have any problem with that so we headed over. And wouldn’t you know it, on the way to the park it got cloudy out. Usually a little bit of clouds is a good thing for outdoor photos but this was just terrible. It was hazy and I had very poor lighting to work with. I explained what the draw backs were to photographing in low lighting situations but my Aunt said that they didn’t have any time to wait around, so she told me to just do the best I could. And I did. But the photos just didn’t turn out looking great; it was just a shade too dark. So of course when I took them to her I could tell that she wasn’t happy, even though she tried to hide it. The photos weren’t terrible by any means, but they just weren’t GREAT!! Not like I wanted them to be. I try and make all my pictures great, not just good. So even though she will never admit it to me, I could tell she was unhappy. My mother said that I just convinced myself that my Aunt was unhappy with the photos because I was so nervous about photographing family members. My mom insists that she spoke with my Aunt, and she loves the pictures. That’s just hard for me to believe. So, I’m not too happy with myself right now. But on the other hand, I did my best to make sure that we would have more time to take the photos. My Aunt was just really busy, that’s not my fault I suppose!! So, is the customer the unhappy one?? Or is the owner??
