Child Support and Custody: What Are the NJ Rules of the Road?

If you are a parent, child custody and support should be important to you. If you are married to the other parent and things are going well, you share custody and whoever is earning money is supporting the child. When parents are separated, divorced, or never married, the situation is more complicated. Child support refers…

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New Jersey Prenuptial and Final Divorce Agreements on Facebook: Social Media Clauses

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media keep most of us connected to friends and family at all times. For couples going through a divorce, however, posts on social media can become as painful and embattled as negotiations in the lawyer’s office. With this tendency in mind, more and more clients are requesting the inclusion of a “social media clause” in prenuptial documents and final divorce settlement agreements.

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“How do I file a NJ Wage and Hour Claim?” Just read this!

What do you do when you believe you are the victim of wage theft, because your NJ employer:

  1. Has withheld minimum wages from you;
  2. Failed to pay you at overtime rates for work you performed over 40 hours in one week; or
  3. Improperly classified you as a salaried employee, “exempt” from overtime, when in fact you should be “non-exempt”?

In all such cases, your best, fastest, least expensive bet is to file a complaint with the NJ Department of Labor’s Division of Wage and Hour Compliance. http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/wagehour/wagehour_index.html

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