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How Marital Fault May Affect the Marital Calculus

According to the New Jersey alimony statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23 (b), a New Jersey family court in fixing alimony has to consider thirteen  enumerated factors.  Conspicuously missing from those factors is marital fault.   Litigants may be surprised that a spouse’s “fault” in the classic divorce sense is generally ignored by family court judges…

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