Guide to "Family Law" in New Jersey

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Extreme Cruelty

  1. N.J.S.A. 2A:34-2 provides in relevant part: Divorce from the bond of matrimony may be adjudged for: c. Extreme cruelty, which is defined as including any physical or mental cruelty which endangers the safety or health of the plaintiff or makes it improper or unreasonable to expect the plaintiff to continue to cohabit with the defendant; provided that no complaint for divorce shall be filed until after 3 months from the date of the last act of cruelty complained of in the complaint, but this provision shall not be held to apply to any counterclaim.


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