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Dear Friends,       

The season for giving has arrived! It is important to give thanks to those around you this season because you don’t know who really needs to hear it. This season is also about love. The love that you give to those around you is a direct reflection of the person you are. It’s important to recognize that love is not only meant for family but also for friends.

Kelly Roper’s short poem “Different Meanings of Family” explains what is at the core of every familial relationship:

"To some, family means mom, dad and the kids.
To others, family means single parents doing the job of two to make a home.
To some, family means living with grandparents too.
To others, family is the aunt or uncle who has stepped up to fill in for parents.
To some, family means two moms or two dads growing a family together.
To others, family means two people multiplying their love through adoption.
To some, family is limited to blood relations.
To others, family includes friends who are there through thick and thin.
To some, family is all about the people in their lives.
To others, pets are considered family members too.
Yes, family means different things to different people,
But every family has one thing in common, and that’s love."

Below are two blog posts on employment and family law. The first post is called Religious Discrimination Cases Come in Two Flavors: Failure to Accommodate and Disparate Treatment a
nd the second is called Dissipation & Divorce: When a Spouse Spends Money on Themselves Expecting You’ll Pay Half.

Please let us know if we may be helpful to your friends, your family, or you. Our primary practice areas remain family law, employment law for workers or management, and general civil and criminal/municipal court advocacy. If you need a lawyer here or elsewhere in practice areas we do not handle, then we will make appropriate referrals for you, free of charge.

Happy holidays, 

Kingston Law Group
Religious, disability, and pregnancy discrimination cases can involve either or both of these situations. Depending on the facts, a plaintiff may win with one claim and lose on the other. There can be many moving parts to a discrimination lawsuit... 

An essential part of a New Jersey divorce is equitable distribution. It involves identifying, valuing, and fairly distributing joint marital assets and debts. One way for your X2B to put a thumb on the scale is to waste or dissipate joint marital assets during the separation and divorce.  Sometimes, one party spends liquid assets or charges a joint credit card on a vacation or a sports car.  The thought is, they will enjoy the purchase with the hope that you will share in 50% of the expense – through drained assets or a bigger credit card bill...