Legal Question in Civil Litigation in New Jersey

Do I have a case for defamation?

As part of a ''Certificatio in Support for Custody'', a FALSE statement was made about me. The person making the certification to the court, under oath, stated the I had ''Prior DWI's. This statement was made for the sole purpose of casting asspersions on my character to shiow I was not fit for custody. When confronted with an abstract of my driving record in court showing the I have never had a DWI, the person again lied, and stated he ''thought'' his mother had told him I had prior DWIs, which she never did. there was no mention in the certificatio about his mother telling him anything, it was just made as a flat statement that ''I had prior DWI's''. (In a prior certification he does make a false statement about someone else, but states in that on that he does not know for sure, but was told by a third party). Do I have a case for defamation, even though he changed his story in court and said ''He Thought his mother told him ''. The certification was swon to knowing that if any of the statements were made willingly false, he was subject to penalty.

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