- New Jersey’s Nursing Homes: A Closer Look at CMS’s Special Focus Facilities
July 15, 2024
In April of 2024, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated their list of Special Focus Facilities. Special Focus Facilities (SFFs) are “nursing homes that have a history of serious quality issues and are included in a special program to stimulate improvements in their quality of care.” These SFFs are divided into four distinct ...
- Alarming Cases of Elder Abuse in New Jersey Long-Term Care Facilities
July 11, 2024
Three employees of two separate New Jersey long-term care facilities were indicted this past month, highlighting grave concerns over resident safety and care standards in such facilities throughout the state. Per the June 14 press release from the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Joseph Robles, 23, of Tuckerton, and Maria Alcantara, 53, of Toms ...
- Counsel Fees in a Guardianship Action
June 26, 2024
In most civil actions in the State of New Jersey, parties are responsible for the payment of their own counsel fees subject to limited exceptions. In the context of a guardianship action, however, the party who commences the guardianship action may be entitled to the payment of their counsel fees from the funds of the ...
- Senior Care Strategies: How to Prepare for Life’s Later Stages
June 26, 2024
With continuing advances in medicine, nutrition, and wellness, people are living longer. We all want to age like the characters on the popular sitcom “Golden Girls,” whose “golden years” seem fabulous and filled with humor, as Dorothy constantly threatens to send her hilariously feisty mother, Sophia, to a nursing home. The reality is, aging can ...
- The Role of NJ’s Chancery Division in Administering Justice Beyond Monetary Damages
June 26, 2024
What is the Chancery Division? What does equitable relief mean? These are among the many questions posed by litigants facing either a claim filed in the Chancery Division or seeking legal assistance for complex claims seeking relief that is not always monetary. As a former law clerk to a Presiding Judge of the Chancery Division ...
- Navigating Workers’ Compensation for Repetitive Stress Injuries
June 20, 2024
The term ‘repetitive stress injury’ covers a wide variety of conditions. A Repetitive stress or strain injury happens when too much stress is placed on a given body part and can result in pain, swelling, muscle strains, and tissue damage. If your job involves performing the same task over and over, whether it’s data entry ...
- Understanding the Enhanced Regulation S-P Requirements
June 10, 2024
On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to Regulation S-P, the regulation that governs the treatment of nonpublic personal information about consumers by certain financial institutions. The amendments apply to broker-dealers, investment companies, and registered investment advisers (collectively, “covered institutions”) and are designed to modernize and enhance the protection of consumer ...
- Navigating the New Compliance Landscape: Understanding Rule 14Ad-1 and Form N-PX Filing
June 10, 2024
New Rule 14Ad-1 takes effect on July 1, 2024, with filing of Form N-PX due on August 31, 2024, for votes during the July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 reporting period. The Rule requires all institutional investment managers that are 13F filers to report say-on-pay votes on the new version of Form N-PX when ...
- Ensuring Compliance: The 2023 DOL Retrospective Review
June 10, 2024
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) continues to require the completion of a Retrospective Review. The Retrospective Review (the “Review”) requirement of Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 (the “PTE”) is designed to assist in detecting and preventing violations of, and achieving compliance with, the Impartial Conduct Standards and the policies and procedures adopted for compliance with the ...
- Navigating the Realm of Children’s Expenses When Seeking Child Support: A Comprehensive Guide
June 4, 2024
Raising children is perhaps one of the most rewarding, yet financially demanding, journeys. From infancy to adulthood (and sometimes thereafter), parents face a multitude of expenses that evolve as their children grow. When parents break up, it is crucial to understand these expenses for financial planning. Child support in New Jersey is calculated by taking ...
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