Older Couples in New Jersey Divorce More Often than Parents

Members of the baby boomer generation reshaped the cultural landscape of America during their younger years, and as they approach middle age and retirement, they are altering the country’s perception of divorce. Boomers have bucked trends throughout their lives, and they are doing it again. While middle-age divorce was once fairly rare, boomers are now…

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New Jersey Congressman Introduces Child Custody Bill

Divorcing parents will inevitably have to face the decision about how they will divide custody of their children. While determining child custody can be an emotional process, in many cases a child will ending up seeing each parent some amount of the time. But in unusual cases, a parent may remove a child from the…

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New Age Discrimination Rule Promulgated by EEOC

In our last post we discussed the difficulty that many workers in New Jersey and elsewhere are having in securing permanent employment. As companies cut workforces during the recession, many older employees who had worked in the same job or industry for years were laid off. News stories frequently cite the hardship that older workers…

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Marriage Study Has Implications for New Jersey Couples

Over the years, many studies have searched for what ingredients make a happy and lasting marriage. For some time, however, living together before marriage was an indicator that the union was more likely to end in divorce than one where the couple shared a residence only after the marriage ceremony. A new study released by…

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