Perhaps it is a coincidence, but the pandemic seems to have caused an uptick in Family Part default judgments. It makes sense that isolation, combined with the end of a marriage, would lead to, or trigger underlying, mental health issues that make the prospect of "divorce" intolerable for some spouses. In turn, the perceived best option for those spouses is the "ostrich" approach. Of course, this is the worst approach for a spouse to take when facing a divorce; the result perforce of a default judgment may be that the "avoiding" spouse receives a judgment that is less than would have otherwise been obtained in a contested matter. Equally problematic is that a default judgment is actually quite difficult to set aside in the Family Part.