Family Assets - Courts view a stay-at-home spouse as contributing to the family's assets. As such, if your spouse's assets or business has increased in value during the marriage, you may be entitled to a percentage of that growth upon divorce.

Parties can agree before they are married on the distribution of property in the event of a divorce.  This type of agreement is a pre-nuptial agreement.

New Jersey law also recognizes reconciliation agreements and mid-marriage agreements.  Parties can agree on the amount of spousal support or to the equitable distribution of real and personal property in these agreements after they have married.   A reconciliation agreement is usually made for financial consideration in exchange not to proceed to a divorce.  A mid-marriage agreement is one made for financial consideration.

Many of these agreements have specific requirements to be upheld in court. The attorneys at Nadine Maleski, LLC are able to draft these types of agreements.