Storm Brings First Court Closure For 2015 According to the judiciary's website – New Jersey state courts and state judiciary offices will be closed Tuesday, January 27, 2015. All state court proceedings are canceled. In addition, in Camden County, late night reporting for probation at the Cherry ...
Scrutiny of Alcotest Proves Critical in Defending South Jersey Client Not every defendant charged with DUI is convicted. We recently obtained an outright dismissal of a DUI charge for our client in Bellmawr Township Municipal Court. In this case, our client was on his way home from dinner with h...
What Does it Take to Emancipate a Child in New Jersey? The Garden State is in a minority of states that does not have an automatic emancipation or objective and defined criteria for emancipation. We have previously explained that Emancipation Isn't Automatic in New Jersey. In the past year,...
Five Tips for When You Have Been Injured in a Car Crash Auto collisions are often tragic. For some, the following scenario is all too familiar: you've been involved in a car crash, you are injured, and you not sure what to do. Auto accidents can quickly become a continual source of stress and ...
On the Day Named For Him, We Remember and Reflect on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. we are sharing two videos of the “I Have a Dream Speech.” The first video is the full version which is 17-minutes in length, and the second vide...
The lighter side of a traffic stop. I would like to think that our blog is a a great legal resource for those people who are serious about learning about family law, criminal law, and personal injury law in New Jersey. Every once in a while we will take a look at the lighter side of the law. T...
Our firm is pleased to announced that DeMichele & DeMichele attorney Gregory DeMichele has been appointed as an Alternate/Conflict Public Defender in Cherry Hill beginning in January 2015. Gregory P. DeMichele, Esq. GREGORY DeMICHELE is a shareholder at DeMichele & DeMichele who has been recogn...
Firm Settles Rear-End Collision Case and is Reminded of the Importance of UM and UIM Insurance If you do a quick search of the Internet, you will have no problem finding personal injury law firms touting the size of the recovery they received for the client. Today, we want to do something a l...
DeMichele & DeMichele is pleased to announce that veteran municipal practice attorney and firm shareholder Richard A. DeMichele, Jr. was appointed as municipal prosecutor for Mullica Township beginning in January 2015. Mr. DeMichele, a seasoned litigator, who devotes a substantial part of his pr...
Innovative Local Michigan Police Department Hands Out Christmas Presents Instead of Traffic Tickets Getting pulled over for a traffic stop is rarely fun. The creative police department in Lowell, Michigan wanted to change that by initiating a holiday experiment. The grand plan: they'd pull motor...
Common Questions and Answers About Work Place Injuries Collecting Work Injury Benefits You have been diligently working at your job when tragedy strikes. You are injured at the job site or worse you are catistopically injured! You don't know the extent of you injury or when you will be able to...
Defendants Must Demonstrate a Need for Discovery in DWI Cases Regular readers of our blog know we offer our analysis of judicial decisions that impact DWI law in New Jersey. (See N.J. Supreme Court Resolves Whether Prior DWI Can Enhance Refusal Penalties and Driver Charged with DWI Challenges Co...
From Everyone at the Firm ….. Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday the virtually everybody in the country celebrates. Synonymous with this holiday are families and friends getting together over a bountiful turkey dinner. For many, the Thanksgiving Day tradition includes footbal...
New Jersey Legislature may consider radical changes to college contribution process in family court system The New Jersey Legislature recently passed landmark alimony reform; could college contribution reform be next? One Burlington County legislator wants to lead the charge. Let's take a step b...
DeMichele & DeMichele attorneys attend annual fundraiser for Camden County Women's Center Domestic violence is a serious problem, both nationally and right here in our South Jersey community, and one that we are committed to confronting. It's a regular topic of discussion here at our legal blog...
JUSTICES: New Jersey Defendant's prior DWI conviction(s) should be considered for purposes of assigning penalties for subsequent refusal conviction This article was originally published in The Barrister, the official monthly publication of the Camden County Bar Association for which DeMichele & ...
Guidance When Navigating the Most Sensitive of Parenting Time Conflicts Traditional Rosh Hashanah jams Everyone at DeMichele & DeMichele extends the very best wishes to our friends, colleagues and clients celebrating celebrating Rosh Hashanah. L'Shanah Tovah! While the holidays are typically a ...
The Custodial Parents Gets Default Preference But Their Are Exceptions to the Rule One of the top questions fielded by a family law attorney on an almost daily basis: “Who gets to claim our kids at tax time?” Without fail! And it's for good reason. Dependency deductions are worth significant mon...
The Children's Bill of Rights: Designed to Keep Your Kids from Becoming Forgotten Victims of Your Divorce The weather is getting cooler, your kids are back in school and the holidays – as hard as it is to believe – are right around the corner. That means family law attorneys spend significant amo...
Advocates Say Bill is Win-Win for Police and Public New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed A-2280/S-1305 on Wednesday, a bill which will require select police vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras. A prior attempt to put dashboard cameras in police cars received a “pocket” veto. Loc...
Defending Against Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Field sobriety tests are common place whenever someone is suspected of DWI. In fact, except where the suspect is injured in an automobile accident and needs medical attention, field sobriety tests are normally administered shortly after the p...
NJ DWI Law Survives Constitutional Challenge Recently, a Defendant convicted of drunk driving (“DWI”) under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50(a), unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the State drunk driving laws. The Defendant challenged the manner in which Alcotest evidence of a driver's blood alco...
Happy Fourth of July! Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday. We hope you enjoy the long weekend with family and friends. On this day 238 years ago the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence and our nation was born. Thomas Jefferson began the historic document with a...
Firm Collects $195,000 for a Woman Who Fell Down Three Steps Our firm was recently successful in in obtaining a $195,000 recovery for our client who fell down three steps leading out of her living room down to a concrete paver patio. This was a particularly satisfying case for us because we were...
