New Jersey Child Support Attorney

Filing a child support motion in New Jersey when you live out of state

jefhenninger — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:03:12 +0000

If your original child support was in New Jersey or if you were divorced in New Jersey, your child support matter will likely remain in New Jersey even if you don’t. For some, this can cause apprehension because they don’t know how to handle the situation. How do you find a lawyer? What do you need to fill out? Do you need to travel to New Jersey?

The good news is that for most, the process can be painless. Start with finding a New Jersey child support lawyer. If you read this blog, you found one. Actually, you found a firm that employs a team of tough, smart child support lawyers. We have offices across the state and we practice in every single New Jersey court. Thus, you don’t have to ask if we go there. If its in New Jersey, we do. Retaining us is painless as well. Call us anytime. Within just a few minutes, we can let you know if we can help. If we can, we can take a credit card or debit card right over the phone. An automatic credit receipt is sent to you within minutes. We will then send you a fee agreement which you can email or fax back.

We rarely need many documents from you but any documents that we do need can also be faxed or emailed. Most child support motions can be finished in 2 days to 1 week. You will sign the documents you need to sign and again, fax or email everything back to us. We will then take care of filing everything with the court and serving the other side with the motion. If we have to go to court, your appearance will likely not be needed. When possible, we try to avoid court appearances even by the lawyer which will save you money. Sometimes, this can be accomplished because we write powerful motions.

At any one time, 50% of our child support cases may be from outside of New Jersey. Thus, this entire process is not only easy, but for our law practice, is quite common.

Looking at a child support attorney as an investment

jefhenninger — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:40:26 +0000

The toughest part about this practice is that most prospective clients would not need a New Jersey child support lawyers if they didn’t suffer a significant decline in their earnings. But this creates a catch-22. How do you find the money to pay a lawyer when you are having problems paying child support? I try to get people to look at hiring an attorney as an investment. If we can reduce your child support obligation, the money you save may quickly make up for the legal fees you had to pay. Once you have recouped your investment, you could view the balance as profit. This is especially helpful if you need to convince a friend or family member to lend you the money for the legal fees.

Client goes from $50 to $151 per week in child support payments

jefhenninger — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:51:14 +0000

Huge win today and proof that I don’t just represent one side. My client has been getting screwed for years. The other side paid $50 for over 10 years with not one COLA adjustment. Worse yet, my client was not reimbursed for any medical expenses. I was able to get the client everything we were looking for and the child support went from $50 per week to $151. The best part is that it didn’t even cost my client that much money!

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Arrears vacated, Child Emancipated, Money Returned

jefhenninger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:14:36 +0000

Client recently hired me to emancipate his child and get his money back that the Probation Department took from his tax returns. We had to move quick because Probation wanted to lock him up for failing to pay. In the end, the child was emancipated, the money from the tax returns was given back to the client and Probation vacated his arrears so his balance was set at zero.

Child Emancipated, Probation Account Closed

jefhenninger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:07:32 +0000

Just a quick note on a recent victory, one of many during “emancipation season”. This one was great because it was quick and I won the case for under the small retainer that I charged the client. Not only did he win but he got money back from me!

Client gets increase in child support due to election win

jefhenninger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:04:51 +0000

My client is the mother of two great children. The father of the children just won an election that will result in a second job and a big increase in his salary. We filed a motion for an increase in child support and a host of other issues and we not only won, but we got a great result. The tricky part of this case was that we had to file the motion right away due to some emergent issues. However, the new position would not start for another month or so after the court date. Thus, the court may have kicked it and told us to come back in a month when the new position started. However, I worked it out with the other side to avoid a second court appearance and more expense to my client. She got the bump in child support and we don’t have to come back to court.

Waiting to file a motion could cost you

jefhenninger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:00:57 +0000

One of my new clients just came to me to file a motion to increase child support as the number has not been adjusted in over a decade. As a result, she has been missing out on thousands of dollars per year as the number is off by anywhere from 50% to 75%. In addition, she never sought any contribution for medical expenses which is even more money that she has left on the table. Lucky, we may be able to get some of that back. But since there is no retroactive child support increase, she will still lose a ton of money. Moral of the story: act now!

When is emancipation not emancipation?

jefhenninger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:56:51 +0000

I try to tell people to get an attorney from day one but I can’t reach everyone. My most recent example is one of my new clients. He went to court without an attorney for emancipation and was first denied for lack of service even though he showed the court that the other side was indeed served! He tried again and this time, he won. Child emancipated. Case over right? Not quite.

The Probation Department, for whatever reason, didn’t care about the Court’s order and refused to adjust his child support. Even worse, is that the child should have been emancipated back to a couple of months prior to the last order but the court made up an arbitrary date for emancipation. He hired me and we are fixing the problem. However, he may be stuck with the wrong emancipation date as he did not file a motion in time or an appeal. Thus, he left thousands of dollars on the table.

Firm kicks off emancipation season with several wins

jefhenninger — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:32:23 +0000

We are entering what I call “emancipation season” because children will be graduating high school and college within the next few months. Thus, the calls for emancipation will be coming in fast and furious from now till about July. In the past several weeks, we have won several emancipation cases including one last week where I was able to emancipate two children at once for my client which totally ended his child support.

I was also able to work out a case a few weeks before that where I cut down my client’s arrears as a result of the emancipation by over $10,000. My associate has also had some nice wins too.