Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey

Re: How to vacate judgement on my own

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Hackenack, New Jersey

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Re: How to vacate judgement on my own

As to the actions of the NJ Court, The previous attorneys are correct, if you are here, you will do bewst to have an attorney working for you there. Given teh limited fact pattern provided, you may have the avenue of not having recieved adequate Notice of the hearing, and that your ex may have made a false assetion that you were not pregnant when he filed his Petition. I am not admitted to practice in New Jersey, so I cannot give you NJ specific advice. However, you may be verly limited in the time in which you can seek to have the Judgment set aside. Many states give you only 30 days. Try to get an attorney this week, or file a Pro Se Motion to Set Aside or Reconsider the Judgment. In it tell the Court that you did not get adequate Notice of the hearing, and that you were preganant when the Judgment was handed down.

Even if you lose in NJ, you can still seek child support from your ex in Missouri. Under interstate compacts, an Award of Child support you get here in Jackson County, Missouri, may be enforceable in New Jersey. Do not delay in getting the situation in NJ rectified. But even if you do get the Judgment set aside, you would still have to respond to his claims in that case.

He would have to respond to your claims for child support here in Missouri. If the NJ Court found that you were not pregnant, then it may hurt you here. Do what you have to to get the NJ Court to at least reconsider the Judgment, that you indicate was rendered by default.

Good Luck

Re: How to vacate judgement on my own

Assuming that you have given all of the needed information (and no insult, I assure you, it is almost impossible for a person to give ALL of the critical information in a posting like this), then you may want to consider the following ideas.

The Courts should allow you to set aside a judgment if you have good reason why you did not appear and fight the claim. It is impossible to promise you that you will certainly win on this, but the Courts of New Jersey are likely to want to allow you to have your 'day in court'.

This will affect your child's life for many, many years. I recommend very strongly that you hire an attorney to represent you.

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