Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey

Re: 13 year relationship

You need a lawyer.

You have a child with this person. That child needs to be raised, in a decent apartment or house, needs to be fed, clothed, educated, sent to college maybe, and in general supported and loved. You can do the last part on your own (every kid deserves two loving supporting parents, though), but everything else takes MONEY!

You probably do not have a lot of money, and you probably depend on your child's other parent's paycheck to pay a lot of your bills.

You still really, really, really, really need advice from a lawyer.

Scrape together the money to get some advice. Plan to make your time as useful to you as possible. Have a list of information for the attorney, including: your income and his/her income for the last 3 years; your major monthly expenses; a list of your assets (cars, bank accounts, house if any owned, pension plans, anything worth a significant amount of money); a list of your debts (how much still owed on the car, the house, credit card bills, mortgage if any, doctor bills, any other debts).

And have a list of specific things that you want the lawyer to give you advice about.

Be prepared to pay for the lawyer's time; it is how the lawyer pays for his/her own bills.

Call if you like; I never charge for a first phone call.

You can then decide how you would like to proceed.

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Re: 13 year relationship

I second Mr. Davies' answer. You need to at least meet with an attorney as there isn't much we can do for you here on this site in this small space.