New Jersey’s 2-year-old amendments to its alimony statute that allow reduced payments based on changed circumstances may be applied retroactively, a trial judge has ruled.
In a published opinion that cited the “harsh present-day reality” that many people lose their jobs never to regain their former earning power, Ocean County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones said there were no indications that the Legislature intended the amendments to the statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23(k), to be applied only prospectively when they became effective on Sept. 10, 2014.
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