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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-64225796397759871122022-11-18T13:28:00.003-05:002022-11-18T13:28:50.518-05:00 Eviction Bill-Services Kenneth Vercammen & Associates<p> <b style="font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Eviction Bill-Services Kenneth Vercammen & Associates</span></b></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><ol start="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 4.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Prepare Complaint Landlord/Tenant. Add amount unpaid, late fees and costs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 4.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Fill out the form Tenancy Summons.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Prepare Letter to court to <b>File Complaint<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Tenancy Division<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">PO Box 1146<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">New Brunswick, NJ 08903-1146 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> Hand deliver Tenancy Eviction complaint to courthouse at 56 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Review Complaint, summons Court hearing notice and supporting documents,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Travel to Middlesex County Courthouse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Spoke with client<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Attendance at Judge mandatory opening statement, attendance at calendar call/hearing, sign eviction paperwork<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Meeting with client<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">LANDLORDS - EVICTING TENANTS FOR NON-PAYMENT OF RENT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Eviction suit legal Fee $3,000 payable Vercammen & Assoc PC, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">You must also pay the court costs by check payable Treasurer, State of NJ. [Between $ 65- $85]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> Fees do not include post judgment fees or services or proceeding with a Warrant for Removal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> This does not include handle filing of a separate suit for money owed in Superior Court. Our up-front fee for other litigation is $5,000. Sometimes it is not cost effective to spend thousands of additional dollars to chase a deadbeat tenant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> By Kenneth A. Vercammen Esq<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> This article will briefly explore certain remedies and recommendations to landlords. Unlike big apartment complexes, many landlords in New Jersey do not have full time management companies handling the collection of rent. Yet all landlords should handle their payments as a business, just as big corporate landlords. </span><b>More info at <u>http://www.njlaws.com/landlords-eviciting_tenants_for_nonpayment.htm</u></b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">WRITTEN LEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> A written lease is recommended for all rentals even for a month to month. Your lease should specifically require that the tenant pay the landlord's attorney's fees if they fail to pay rent or breach the lease in any way. If a written lease does not provide for attorneys fees, the court cannot award attorneys fees. In addition, your lease should provide in writing for re-renting cost if the tenant breaches the lease. Many leases also provide for late fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">NON-PAYMENT OF RENT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> If your tenant fails to pay and you want to evict the tenant, a Tenancy Summons Dispossess Eviction Complaint must be filed in the Supreme Court's Special Civil Part. The court-filing fee is less than $50. Different attorneys charge different fees depending upon the amount of work to be done. Your attorney can prepare the mandatory complaint and summons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> The court constable is required to personally serve the tenant with a copy of the complaint. The court clerk will fill out the date and time for hearing on the summons, which also will be served on the tenant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> You and your attorney should appear on the date for hearing. If the tenant appears, parties sometimes work out a payment plan for rent with a stipulation of settlement and stay of eviction. The landlord and tenant usually agree if all rent is not paid according to the schedule, the court is directed to issue a warrant for possession.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">FAILURE OF TENANT TO APPEAR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> If the tenant fails to appear by the second call, you can pay an additional fee for a warrant of removal. This is obtained at the Special Civil Part Clerk, Tenancy Section Office. After waiting three days, the constable is given the warrant to serve at the tenant's property. If the tenant still fails to move, arrangements can be made with the constable and locksmith to physically remove the tenants and change locks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">REGISTRATION OF PROPERTY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> Most residential units most be registered with the town. It is a good idea to bring proof of registration when you go to court.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">FILE A SPECIAL CIVIL PART COMPLAINT FOR MONEY OWED<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> Most eviction complaints are evictions based only on non-payment of rent. The New Jersey Anti-Eviction Act places substantial notice requirement on landlords who wish to evict tenants for reasons other than non-payment of rent. If the tenant is able to pay the rent in full prior to warrant of possession, the court will let the tenant remain in the property.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY- You must file a separate lawsuit in the Special Civil Part<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> The Tenancy Judge will not require the tenant to pay attorneys fees, damages and other costs. This court can only evict tenants, or permit tenants to remain if they paid the rent in full. To protect yourself and get all money due, file a money owed complaint in the Special Civil Part. The filing fee is $75.00 plus postage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> KENNETH VERCAMMEN & ASSOCIATES, PC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">ATTORNEY AT LAW<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">2053 Woodbridge Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;">Edison, NJ 08817<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-right: 4.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;"> (Phone) 732-572-0500<o:p></o:p></span></p>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-70293832417686060752022-11-12T15:26:00.005-05:002022-11-12T15:26:28.627-05:00Landlord not liable here where tenant dog bit a visitor Curry v. New Cmty. Corp<div class="row" id="article-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #454545; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important;"><div class="col-lg-9" id="article-left-col" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 75%; max-width: 75%; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 862.5px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important;"><div class="col-lg-11 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 91.66666412353516%; max-width: 91.66666412353516%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 776.875px;"><div class="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 65%; overflow: hidden;"><div id="case-digest-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Landlord not liable here where tenant dog bit a visitor<span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: ProximaNova-Regular; font-size: 19px;"> Curry v. New Cmty. Corp. Plaintiff appealed the summary dismissal of action over a dog bite to a child. source September 29, 2022 : A-3776-20 Plaintiff appealed the summary dismissal of action over a dog bite to a child. Plaintiff and child were visiting a friend who lived in an apartment complex owned by defendant corporation that forbade dogs to live there. Child was bitten by dog owned by a tenant. Trial court found that under common law, a landlord was not responsible for injuries caused by a tenant's dog and corporation was entitled to summary judgment because of the no pet provision in the lease and, even assuming landlord knew tenant had dog, there was no evidence landlord knew of dog's vicious propensities. Court affirmed for the reasons expressed by the trial judge. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION</span></p><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.</span></p></div></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">QUYNTON CURRY,<br />a minor by ALISON RODRIGUEZ, his Guardian ad Litem,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff-Appellant, v.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION<br />DOCKET NO. A-3776-20</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">NEW COMMUNITY CORPORATION, Defendant-Respondent,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and<br />CELESTE M. ATKINS,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant. _________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Submitted September 20, 2022 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Decided September 29, 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Before Judges Sumners and Geiger.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Civil Part, Hudson County, Docket No. L- 2987-18.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Seigel Law LLC, attorneys for appellant (James P. Kimball, of counsel and on the briefs).</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Carey & Grossi, attorneys for respondent (John J. Grossi, III, on the brief).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PER CURIAM<br />Plaintiff, eight-year-old Quynton Curry, and his mother and guardian ad</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">litem, Alison Rodriguez, were visiting the home of family friend Ashantee Oliver, who resided at an apartment complex owned by defendant New Community Corporation (NCC), when he was bitten by a dog on his right ear, left leg, and left arm while playing in the backyard. The dog was owned by defendant Celeste Atkins, a NCC resident. According to the lease agreement signed by all NCC residents, no dogs are allowed in or on NCC's properties. Yet, Oliver owned a dog, as apparently did several other NCC residents based on signs in the windows of their homes stating, "Dog on premises." Although Atkins' dog nibbled on the ear of Oliver's daughter three years earlier, the incident was not reported to NCC.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Judge Vincent J. Militello granted summary judgment dismissal of plaintiff's claims against NCC based on reasons set forth in an oral decision.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After applying the summary judgment standard set forth in Rule 4:46-2 and Brill</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Atkins failed to file an answer to the complaint; default was entered, followed by default judgment in the amount of $750,000. Unfortunately for plaintiff, Atkins was uninsured and essentially judgment proof.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page2image1727827440" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f296188b-286f-454c-a2dd-6c805cd8b61c" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-3776-20</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 142 N.J. 520 (1995), the judge focused on three decisions of this court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">First, the judge, relying on Cogsville v. Trenton, 159 N.J. Super. 71, 74 (App. Div. 1978), stated that "under common law ordinarily a landlord is not </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">responsible for injuries caused by a tenant’s dog.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">" In Cogsville, we held "ordinarily a landlord has no liability for a nuisance on leased premises unless it existed prior to the letting and was continued by the tenant, or unless the nuisance was the direct result of the use agreed to by the landlord." Ibid. The judge found neither of these factors applied to the case at bar. NCC also did not agree to allow dogs on the leased premises</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">in fact, its leases prohibited such. The judge reasoned that under Cogsville, a dog owner is strictly liable for damages caused by the dog in accordance with N.J.S.A. 4:19-16, but the dog owner's landlord is not liable when the dog bites someone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The judge next cited Linebaugh vs. Hyndman, where we broadened our view of a landlord's liability for a tenant's pet. 213 N.J. Super. 117 (App. Div. 1986). There, we held "a landlord's responsibility to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of common areas under his control encompasses a duty owed to his tenant's invitees to prevent injury from a vicious animal kept on such premises with his knowledge." Id. at 119-20.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image702332336" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/72593fb3-470b-4756-922f-46f3e78bef6e" width="201.620000" /> <img alt="page3image702332624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/09acf376-5357-4a75-ad43-437a09999d5d" width="123.380000" /> <img alt="page3image702332912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c9376fc6-14fb-40aa-822d-023c4596bc16" width="56.424000" /> <img alt="page3image702333200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/34508cc3-58e8-48e0-96ec-72ab0cddcad5" width="56.400000" /> <img alt="page3image702333488" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9ac4f8a4-36fa-4190-a956-0e9d4066a4a9" width="146.660000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">3</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-3776-20</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, the judge relied upon Hyun Na Seo v. Yozgadlian, 320 N.J. Super. 68, 71 (App. Div. 1999), a situation like the case at bar, where we fine-tuned our reasoning for when a landlord might be held liable for a tenant's pet where the lease agreement prohibits pets. In Hyun, we rejected the trial court's finding that a lease provision prohibiting pets made the landlords an insurer for any damages caused by a pet in violation of the provision. Id. at 71. We stated:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff offered no proof that the dog that bit her was known to have vicious propensities, let alone that the landlord knew of the dog's prior vicious propensities. We find those cases to be persuasive and conclude that the trial judge erroneously elevated the landlords to the status of an insurer for any damages caused by [their tenant's] dog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Id. at 73.]<br />Considering this case law, Judge Militello reasoned NCC was entitled to</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">summary judgment because, despite NCC's no pet provision in its lease agreement, and "even assuming" it knew Atkins had a dog, "[p]laintiff offered no proof . . . the dog that bit him was known to have vicious propensities . . . , [and even if] . . . </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">others knew of the dog’s propensities, there’s no evidence </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. . . [NCC] knew of t</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">he dog’s vicious propensities.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We review a grant of summary judgment using the same standard that governs the motion judge's decision. RSI Bank v. Providence Mut. Fire Ins.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page4image702102208" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bd1af652-fd7a-4087-8fd1-25eb065a9731" width="161.780000" /> <img alt="page4image702102496" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/87fbca3b-4ca7-4fd9-82fc-03198b90d70e" width="32.424000" /> <img alt="page4image702102784" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a6f98655-19ee-4bdd-a4ff-49b527a96bd5" width="236.090000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-3776-20</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Co., 234 N.J. 459, 472 (2018) (citing Bhagat v. Bhagat, 217 N.J. 22, 38 (2014)). Summary judgment is appropriate when "the pleadings, depositions, interrogatories and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issues as to any material fact challenged and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment or order as a matter of law." R. 4:46- 2(c); Brill, 142 N.J. at 528-29. "When no issue of fact exists, and only a question of law remains, this [c]ourt affords no special deference to the legal determinations of the [motion judge]." RSI Bank, 234 N.J. at 472 (quoting Templo Fuente De Vida Corp. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co., 224 N.J. 189, 199 (2016)).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Considering our review of the record and the controlling case law, summary judgment was proper for the cogent reasons set forth by Judge Militello in his oral decision. There is no merit to plaintiffs' argument that summary judgment was inappropriate based upon Rodriguez's deposition </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">testimony that there were "questions of fact presented as to NCC’s knowledge </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">of the existence of this dog (and other dogs) living at . . . [its] apartments, in </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">violation of its lease agreement with its tenants, as well as to NCC’s knowledge of the vicious propensities of Atkins’[s] dog.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">" We conclude, as did the judge, plaintiff's assertions concerning NCC's lease provision prohibiting dogs, the</span></p></div></div><img alt="page5image701885056" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3c651359-e6e3-49af-b7cc-bfd123e52e12" width="100.940000" /> <img alt="page5image701885344" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ea67607a-6132-43ac-a478-7c75c3b3c25b" width="59.424000" /> <img alt="page5image701885632" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7186b481-7b5e-423d-8508-b9fb7d7be34b" width="352.370000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-3776-20</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">signage indicating the presence of dogs in NCC tenants' apartments, and an unreported prior incident involving Atkins's dog, fail to establish that a reasonable jury could determine NCC knew or should have known Atkins housed a dog with vicious propensities and thus making NCC liable for plaintiff's unfortunate injuries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To the extent we have not specifically addressed any of plaintiff's arguments, we conclude they lack sufficient merit to warrant discussion in a written opinion. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E).</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Affirmed.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page6image701586880" height="60.575000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e76c2ede-fee3-49ed-abb9-4c5e0b9c9b10" width="124.800000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-3776-20</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-80848324767799455482022-08-22T11:03:00.003-04:002022-08-22T11:03:48.970-04:00RULE 4:45. Judgment By Confession<p> </p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0pt 0pt 0.006pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">RULE 4:45. Judgment By Confession</span></p><p><span style="color: #334d55; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">4:45-1. Warrant of Attorney</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">A judgment by confession shall not be entered upon a warrant of attorney which is included in the body of a bond or other instrument for the payment of money.</span></p><p><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: 700;">Note: Source-R.R. 4:57-1.</span></p><p><span style="color: #334d55; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">4:45-2. Procedure to Confess Judgment</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">No judgment shall be entered on warrant of attorney in any action on a bond or other instrument for the payment of money, except on motion after notice to the defendant served in lieu of summons in accordance with R. 4:4-4 or by registered or certified mail. On the return day of the motion, the attorney at law, confessing judgment pursuant to the warrant, shall produce to the</span></p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 0.006pt 0pt 0pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">court the warrant therefor, the bond or instrument, and the affidavit of the plaintiff or plaintiff's attorney or agent, to which is attached a copy of the warrant and instrument, stating the true consideration for the liability stated in the instrument, the amount then justly due the plaintiff, and that the judgment is not confessed with a fraudulent intent or to protect the property of the defendant from creditors. The court may require additional proof in such form as it directs that the warrant was duly executed, the person liable is living and was notified of the application, and the debt or a part thereof is unsatisfied. The court shall then, if satisfied with the proofs, order entry of a judgment for such amount as it finds to be due.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-13371690566849841182022-04-20T11:34:00.002-04:002022-04-20T11:34:42.262-04:00 Eviction Notice Time periods NJ<p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Eviction Notice Time periods NJ</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="color: #244084; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Types of New Jersey Eviction Notices</span></p><p style="color: #212223; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Each possible ground for eviction has its own notice type. Some notices allow the tenant to fix (“cure”) the issue and continue the tenancy, while others simply state an amount of time to vacate.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 693.1px;">
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</table><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Source https://ipropertymanagement.com/templates/new-jersey-eviction-notice-form</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">GROUNDS FOR EVICTION </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="unknown.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b2c50de7-bd6b-4470-9117-5e53a04d26f3" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a. Failure to Pay Rent </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If a tenant fails to pay rent, the landlord may immediately take legal action to have the tenant evicted. The landlord is not required to give the tenant notice before filing an eviction suit, except if the tenant resides in federally subsidized housing. If the tenant resides in federally subsidized housing a 14-day notice must be given before filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: A tenant may not be evicted for nonpayment of rent, if the tenant used the unpaid portion of rent to continue utility services to the rental premises after receiving notice that the services were in danger of being discontinued, and if the landlord was responsible for the payment of those utility services and did not make the payments required to retain the use of those services. These utilities include: electric, gas, water and sewer. The money used to pay for the continuance of those services shall be considered part of the rent payment. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">b. Disorderly Conduct Eviction NJ</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If after given written Notice to Cease disorderly conduct, the tenant continues the disorderly conduct and that conduct destroys the peace and quiet of the other tenants living in the house or neighborhood, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Disorderly conduct that disturbs other tenants</span></p><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Notices required:</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Notice to cease</span></li>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Notice to quit must be served on the tenant at least three days before filing an eviction suit.</span></li>
</ul><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Comments:</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Notice to cease must specifically and in detail describe the disorderly conduct and demand that the tenant stop it or face eviction. Cite: A.P. Development Corp. v. Band, 113 N.J. 485 (1988). The notice must also tell you that if you stop the disorderly conduct, then you won’t be evicted. Cite: RWB Newton Assoc. v. Gunn, 224 N.J. Super. 704 (App. Div. 1988). </span></li>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Disorderly conduct must then continue after the notice to cease for the tenant to be evicted.</span></li>
</ul><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">c. Damage or destruction of the landlord’s property </span></p><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Notices required:</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Notice to quit must be served on the tenant at least three days before filing the eviction suit.</span></li>
</ul><p style="color: #032553; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Comments:</span></p><ul>
<li style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The tenant’s conduct that causes the damage must be intentional or grossly negligent. (You can’t be evicted because of damage caused by a simple accident or mistake on your part.) Cite: Korman Suites v. Kelsch Assoc., 372 NJ Super 161 (L.aw Div. 2004)</span></li>
</ul><p style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Alterations made without the landlord’s consent/authorization can be deemed as damage, even if the alterations are an improvement.</span></p><p style="color: #813a5f; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-kerning: none;">Source <a href="https://www.lsnjlaw.org/Housing/Landlord-Tenant/Evictions/Pages/Right-Court-Process.aspx#b"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">https://www.lsnjlaw.org/Housing/Landlord-Tenant/Evictions/Pages/Right-Court-Process.aspx#b</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="color: #363636; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Eviction Process for Disorderly Conduct</span></p><p style="color: #212223; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A tenant can be evicted in New Jersey for being “disorderly” to the point that other tenants’ peaceable enjoyment of the rental property is ruined. This can even extend to peaceable enjoyment of anyone else living in the neighborhood, even if they don’t live on the rental property.</span></p><p style="color: #212223; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tenants must first be given a written Notice to Cease, warning them to stop the behavior, before the landlord can give them a Notice to Quit.</span></p><p style="color: #212223; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If the tenant continues to be “disorderly” after receiving the Notice to Cease, the landlord must provide the tenant with a <a href="https://ipropertymanagement.com/templates/new-jersey-eviction-notice-form"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #f98523;">3-Day Notice to Quit</span></a>, giving the tenant three days </span><span style="background-color: #b3b3b3; color: #f98523; font-kerning: none;"><sup>[5]</sup></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">to move out of the rental unit in order to avoid eviction.</span></p><p style="color: #212223; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If the tenant remains on the property after the notice period expires, the landlord may proceed with the eviction process.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">c. Damage or Destruction to the Property </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The tenant may be evicted if he has intentionally or by reason of gross negligence caused or allowed destruction, damage or injury to the property. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">d. Substantial Violation or Breach of the Landlord’s Rules and Regulations </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If after given a written Notice to Cease violating or breaching reasonable rules and regulations contained in the lease or accepted in writing by the tenant, the tenant continues to substantially violate or breach the rules and regulations, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least one month prior to filing the suit for eviction. In addition, any notices must be given on or before the start of a new month. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">e. Violation or Breach of Covenants or Agreements Contained in the Lease </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">1. 1) If the tenant continues to substantially violate or breach the reasonable covenants or agreements contained in the lease, after given written Notice to Cease violating or breaching those covenants or agreements and if the landlord has reserved a right of re-entry in the lease, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">least one month prior to filing the suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">2. 2) In public housing, if the tenant has substantially violated or breached any of the covenants or agreements contained in the lease, pertaining to illegal uses of controlled dangerous substances, or other illegal activities, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. The covenant or agreement must conform to federal guidelines and must have been in effect at the beginning of the lease term. The landlord does not have to give Notice to Cease the illegal activity before filing for a Notice to Quit. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant in accordance with federal regulations pertaining to public housing. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: A public housing authority may evict a tenant when a member of the tenant’s household or guest engages in drug-related activity, even if the tenant did not know of the drug related activity. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker, 122 S.Ct. 1230 (2002). </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="unknown_1.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/67d571da-31b6-49ae-8aa3-fb33fcb5d482" /><img alt="unknown_2.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9a2f0e96-f61c-4aac-91c3-06dfce8ba44e" /><img alt="unknown_3.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0c4206e9-9135-4a0e-b4b2-ea425fdc1fbe" /><img alt="unknown_4.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/090bce4e-3f70-450c-8fc4-fe3572adab0a" /><img alt="unknown_5.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ec9710ae-3712-4302-8d5d-de352030cf05" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">f. Failure to Pay Rent Increase </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If a tenant fails to pay rent after being given notice of a rent increase and a Notice to Quit, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. The rent increase must not be unconscionable and must comply with all other laws or municipal ordinances, including rent control. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least one month prior to filing the suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: If the tenant believes the rent increase is unconscionable, he may withhold a portion of the rent. He may withhold the difference between the old rent rate and the new increased rate. However, the landlord may file a suit for eviction and the court would determine if the rent increase is unconscionable. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">g. Health and Safety Violation or Removal from the Rental Market </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A tenant may be evicted if the following conditions apply: </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">1. 1) The landlord has been cited by an inspector and needs to board up or demolish the property because of substantial health and safety violations and because it is financially difficult to fix the violations. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">2. 2) The landlord needs to fix health and safety violations and it is not possible to do so, while the tenant resides at the property. When the landlord serves the eviction notice he must also notify the Department of Community Affairs, Landlord-Tenant Information Service, P.O. Box 805, Trenton, New Jersey 08635-0805. In addition, upon request, the landlord must provide the Department of Community Affairs with information as required under the law, so that the Department may prepare a report informing all parties and the court of the feasibility of the landlord to fix the violations without removing the tenants from the property. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">3. 3) The landlord needs to correct an illegal occupancy and it is not possible to correct this violation without removing the tenant. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">4. 4) A governmental agency wants to permanently take the property off the rental market, so that it can redevelop or clear land in a blighted area. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three months before filing a suit for eviction. The tenant can’t be evicted until relocation assistance is provided. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: Tenants evicted under this cause may be eligible for financial and other assistance for relocation. If eligible, this assistance must be provided before the tenant can be evicted. Information on relocation assistance can be obtained from the Relocation Assistance Program of the Division of Codes and Standards, P.O. Box 802, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0806, (609) 984- 7609. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Any tenant evicted under g. 3) (illegal occupancy) is entitled to relocation assistance in an amount equal to six times the tenant’s monthly rent. The landlord is responsible for paying the tenant’s relocation expenses. Any tenant who does not receive the required payment from the landlord at least five days prior to his or her removal from the premises, may receive payment from a revolving relocation assistance fund established by the municipality. The landlord will be required to repay the money to the municipality. (Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1g.) </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">However, if the municipality has not established a relocation assistance fund, and the landlord does not pay the relocation funds within the required time, interest will accrue on the unpaid balance at the rate of 18% per year until the amount due, including interest is paid in full to the tenant. The amount due to the tenant is a lien on the property. The tenant may file a lien statement with the county clerk or registrar in order to enforce the lien. (Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1h.) </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="unknown_6.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/287932e8-a742-477b-b603-c4bca9ce5271" /><img alt="unknown_7.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7d64ad78-e68e-4d7b-942a-a00ae995e653" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">h. The Landlord Wants to Permanently Retire the Property from Residential Use </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If the landlord wants to permanently retire a building or mobile home park from residential use, provided the circumstances covered under section (g) above do not apply, the landlord may file suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least 18 months prior to filing the suit for eviction. No legal action may be taken until the lease expires. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">i. Refusal to Accept Reasonable Changes in the Terms and Conditions of the Lease </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">When the lease expires, the landlord may propose reasonable but substantial changes to the terms and conditions of the lease. If after written notice the tenant refuses to accept those changes the landlord may file suit for eviction and the court will determine if the proposed changes are reasonable. In cases where a tenant has received a notice of termination on any of the grounds listed in section (k) below, has a protected tenancy status pursuant to the “Senior Citizens and Disabled Protected Tenancy Act,” or pursuant to the “Tenant Protection Act of 1992,” the landlord or owner shall have the burden of proving that any changes in the terms and conditions of the lease, rental or regulations are reasonable and does not substantially reduce the rights and privileges that the tenant was entitled to prior to the conversion. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least one month before filing suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: The Senior Citizens and Disabled Protected Tenancy Act protects qualifying tenants from changes in the terms of the tenancy or rent increases, which rests solely on the landlord’s decision to convert the rental premises. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">j. Tenant Continuously Fails to Pay Rent or Habitually Pays Late </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If the tenant continuously fails to pay rent or habitually pays late, after written Notice to Cease, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least one month before filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Note: The Courts have ruled that habitual late payments means more than one (1) late payment following the Notice to Cease. Also the N.J. Supreme Court ruled that a landlord after giving a tenant a notice to cease late payments, must continue to give the tenant reasonable and sufficient notice when accepting further late payments, that continued late payments from the tenant would result in an eviction action. If the landlord does not give this continued notice, the original Notice to Cease given to the tenant may be considered waived by the Court. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">k. Conversion to Condominium, Cooperative or Fee Simple Ownership </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If the landlord or owner of a building or mobile home park is converting the property from the rental market to a condominium, cooperative or fee simple ownership of two or more dwelling units or park sites, except as hereinafter provided in subsection (l) below, the landlord may file a suit for eviction. The landlord must comply with the regulations governing conversion to condominiums and cooperatives, before a warrant for possession shall be issued. Up to five one-year stays if eviction shall be granted by the court if the tenant has not been offered a reasonable opportunity to examine and rent comparable housing. However, not more than one-year stay shall be granted if the landlord allows the tenant five months’ free rent as compensation for hardship in relocation. No action for possession shall be brought against a senior citizen tenant or disabled tenant with protected tenancy status pursuant to the “Senior Citizens and Disabled Protected Tenancy Act of 1992,” as long as the agency has not terminated the protected tenancy status or the protected tenancy period has not expired. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three years before filing a suit for eviction. No legal action may be taken until the lease expires. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="unknown_8.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2098a8a4-1277-4d62-93b8-9c565eaa2191" /><img alt="unknown_9.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d0462276-b75b-4f55-aa79-f4abf3f0fa48" /><img alt="unknown_10.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/77d59cde-2871-4203-b0e4-0f24ce988667" /><img alt="unknown_11.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/64876dfa-724a-4306-8f21-ea5e1c3c0ef2" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">l. Tenancy After Conversion to Condominium, Cooperative or Fee Simple Ownership </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">1. 1) The landlord may file for eviction, if the owner of a building or mobile home park, which is constructed as or being converted to a condominium, cooperative or fee simple ownership, seeks to evict a tenant or sublessee whose initial tenancy began after the master deed, agreement establishing the cooperative or subdivision plat was recorded, because the owner has contracted to sell the unit to a buyer who seeks to personally occupy it and the contract for sale calls for the unit to be vacant at the time of closing. However, no action shall be brought against a tenant under paragraph one (1) of this subsection unless the tenant was given a statement, informing the tenant that the property is being converted. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least two months prior to filing suit for eviction. No legal </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">action may be taken until the lease expires. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">2. 2) The landlord may file for eviction, if the owner of three or less condominium or cooperative units seeks to evict a tenant whose initial tenancy began, by rental, after the master deed or agreement establishing the cooperative was recorded, because the owner seeks to personally occupy the unit, or has contracted to sell the unit to a buyer who seeks to personally occupy it and the contract for sale calls for the unit to be vacant at the time of closing. A Notice to Quit must be served on the Tenant at least two months prior to filing suit for eviction. No legal action may be taken until the lease expires. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">3. 3) The landlord may file for eviction, if the owner of a building with three residential units or less seeks to personally occupy a unit, or has contracted to sell the residential unit to a buyer who wishes to personally occupy it and the contract for sale calls for the unit to be vacant at the time of closing. A Notice to Quit must be served on the Tenant at least two months prior to filing suit for eviction. No legal action may be taken until the lease expires. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">m. Tenancy Based on Employment </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If a tenant resides in the property on the condition that, he is employed by the landlord as a superintendent, janitor or in some other job and that employment is terminated the landlord may file suit for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant three days prior to filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">n. Conviction of a Drug Offense Committed on the Property </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The landlord may file suit for eviction, if the tenant, including juveniles who have been found by the Court to be delinquent, has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to drug offenses that took place on the property, and has not in connection with his sentence either (1) successfully completed or (2) been admitted to and continues during probation participation toward completion of a drug rehabilitation program. Also, if the tenant lets a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to drug offenses, occupy the premises for residential purposes whether it is continuously or occasionally, the landlord may file for eviction. This does not apply to a tenant allowing a juvenile to reside at the property where the juvenile has been found to be delinquent due to use or possession of drugs. No eviction suit may be brought more than two years after: the juvenile was found to be delinquent; conviction of the person; or after the person’s release from incarceration whichever is later. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">o. Conviction of Assaulting or Threatening the Landlord, His Family or Employees </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The landlord may file for eviction, if the tenant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to, or if a juvenile has been found by the court to be delinquent due to an offense involving assault or terrorist threats against the landlord, a member of the landlord’s family or an employee of the landlord. Also, if the tenant permits a person he knows has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to these </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="unknown_12.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5942a62b-b998-4ecc-b698-22fb413cb880" /><img alt="unknown_13.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a458e45c-2fb7-4556-a732-6853558b6849" /><img alt="unknown_14.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/266165bd-c42c-4b21-ab42-288cfc67f68a" /><img alt="unknown_15.png" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/275350b0-8e91-4e54-88cd-168ba41ac2d9" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">actions to reside at the premises continuously or occasionally, the landlord may file suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">No eviction suit may be brought more than two years after: the juvenile was found to be delinquent; conviction of the person; or after the person’s release from incarceration whichever is later. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing a suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">p. Civil Court Action that Holds Tenant Liable for Involvement in Criminal Activities </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The landlord may file for eviction, if the tenant is found by a civil court proceeding (not criminal) to be liable for involvement in theft of property located on the premises, involvement in assaults or terrorist threats against the landlord, a member of the landlord’s family or an employee of the landlord, or involvement in illegal drug activities that takes place on the premises and that tenant has not in connection with his sentence for the drug offense either (1) successfully completed or (2) been admitted to and continues during probation participation towards completion of a drug rehabilitation program. Also, if the tenant permits a person he knows has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to these actions, to reside at the premises continuously or occasionally, the landlord may file for eviction. This does not apply to a tenant allowing a juvenile to reside at the property where the juvenile has been found to be delinquent due to the use or possession of drugs. No eviction suit may be brought more than two years after: the juvenile was found to be delinquent; conviction of the person; or after the person’s release from incarceration whichever is later. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">q. Conviction for Theft of Property </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The landlord may file for eviction, if the tenant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to, or if a juvenile has been found to be delinquent by the Court due to an offense involving theft of property from the landlord or from tenants residing in the same building or complex. Also, if the tenant permits a person he knows has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to these actions to reside at the premises continuously or occasionally, the landlord may file for eviction. A Notice to Quit must be served on the tenant at least three days prior to filing suit for eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">EVICTIONS FOR OWNER-OCCUPIED TWO AND THREE FAMILY DWELLINGS </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">In addition to the causes listed above, a tenant residing in an owner-occupied two or three family dwelling may be evicted if the landlord can show that the tenant is staying after the expiration of the lease and the landlord has given the tenant a written notice for delivery of possession of the property. Under this cause of not renewing the lease, a three month notice to quit must be given if an at will tenancy or year-to year tenancy exists. A one-month notice to quit is required for a month-to-month tenancy. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">SELF-HELP EVICTIONS OR LOCKOUT </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Self-help evictions occur when the landlord or someone acting on the landlord’s behalf enters into the dwelling unit without the permission of the tenant and without a judgment from the Court and forces the tenant to move. A lockout occurs when the landlord padlocks your door or changes your locks while you are not home and then refuses to allow you back into the premises. A lockout is also when the landlord shuts off the utilities in attempt to force you to move. Self-help evictions or lockouts made by the landlord are illegal in New Jersey. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">If a landlord attempts a self-help eviction or lockout, the tenant should call the police. If the landlord refuses to allow the tenant back into the premises after the police have warned the landlord about the illegal procedure, the landlord may be charged with a disorderly person’s offense. Only a judge can order a legal eviction. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Source</span></p><p style="color: #813a5f; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/codes/publications/pdf_lti/grnds_for_evicti_bulltin.pdf">https://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/codes/publications/pdf_lti/grnds_for_evicti_bulltin.pdf<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #813a5f;"></span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Landlord/Tenant Laws:</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There are two New Jersey statutes that apply to eviction cases. The laws differ on when and why a renter can be evicted.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">See N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 for commercial tenants (not homes) and for residential properties with no more than two rental units (such as a two-family home, or a three-family home if the landlord also lives in one of the units).</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 et. seq. applies to all other residential tenants, except for hotels, motels and seasonal renters.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Eviction Bill-Services Kenneth Vercammen & Associates</span></p><ol>
<li style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Prepare Complaint Landlord/Tenant. Add amount unpaid, late fees and costs</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Fill out the form Tenancy Summons.</span></li>
</ol><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Prepare Letter to court to File Complaint</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Tenancy Division</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">PO Box 1146</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">New Brunswick, NJ 08903-1146 </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Hand deliver Tenancy Eviction complaint to courthouse at 56 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901. </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Review Complaint, summons Court hearing notice and supporting documents,</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Travel to Middlesex County Courthouse</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Spoke with client</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Attendance at Judge mandatory opening statement, attendance at calendar call/hearing, sign eviction paperwork</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Meeting with client</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">LANDLORDS - EVICTING TENANTS FOR NON-PAYMENT OF RENT</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Eviction suit legal Fee $2,000 payable Vercammen & Assoc PC, </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">You must also pay the court costs by check payable Treasurer, State of NJ. [Between $ 65- $85]</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Fees do not include post judgment fees or services or proceeding with a Warrant for Removal</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> This does not include handle filing of a separate suit for money owed in Superior Court. Our up front fee for other litigation is $5,000. Sometimes it is not cost effective to spend thousands of additional dollars to chase a deadbeat tenant.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> By Kenneth A. Vercammen Esq</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> This article will briefly explore certain remedies and recommendations to landlords. Unlike big apartment complexes, many landlords in New Jersey do not have full time management companies handling the collection of rent. Yet all landlords should handle their payments as a business, just as big corporate landlords. More info at </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.njlaws.com/landlords-eviciting_tenants_for_nonpayment.htm</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">WRITTEN LEASE</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> A written lease is recommended for all rentals even for a month to month. Your lease should specifically require that the tenant pay the landlord's attorney's fees if they fail to pay rent or breach the lease in any way. If a written lease does not provide for attorneys fees, the court cannot award attorneys fees. In addition, your lease should provide in writing for re-renting cost if the tenant breaches the lease. Many leases also provide for late fees.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">NON-PAYMENT OF RENT</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> If your tenant fails to pay and you want to evict the tenant, a Tenancy Summons Dispossess Eviction Complaint must be filed in the Supreme Court's Special Civil Part. The court-filing fee is less than $50. Different attorneys charge different fees depending upon the amount of work to be done. Your attorney can prepare the mandatory complaint and summons.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> The court constable is required to personally serve the tenant with a copy of the complaint. The court clerk will fill out the date and time for hearing on the summons, which also will be served on the tenant.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> You and your attorney should appear on the date for hearing. If the tenant appears, parties sometimes work out a payment plan for rent with a stipulation of settlement and stay of eviction. The landlord and tenant usually agree if all rent is not paid according to the schedule, the court is directed to issue a warrant for possession.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">FAILURE OF TENANT TO APPEAR</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> If the tenant fails to appear by the second call, you can pay an additional fee for a warrant of removal. This is obtained at the Special Civil Part Clerk, Tenancy Section Office. After waiting three days, the constable is given the warrant to serve at the tenant's property. If the tenant still fails to move, arrangements can be made with the constable and locksmith to physically remove the tenants and change locks.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">REGISTRATION OF PROPERTY</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Most residential units most be registered with the town. It is a good idea to bring proof of registration when you go to court.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">FILE A SPECIAL CIVIL PART COMPLAINT FOR MONEY OWED</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Most eviction complaints are evictions based only on non-payment of rent. The New Jersey Anti-Eviction Act places substantial notice requirement on landlords who wish to evict tenants for reasons other than non-payment of rent. If the tenant is able to pay the rent in full prior to warrant of possession, the court will let the tenant remain in the property.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY- You must file a separate lawsuit in the Special Civil Part</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> The Tenancy Judge will not require the tenant to pay attorneys fees, damages and other costs. This court can only evict tenants, or permit tenants to remain if they paid the rent in full. To protect yourself and get all money due, file a money owed complaint in the Special Civil Part. The filing fee is $75.00 plus postage</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> KENNETH VERCAMMEN & ASSOCIATES, PC</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">ATTORNEY AT LAW</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">2053 Woodbridge Ave.</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Edison, NJ 08817</span></p><p style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"> (Phone) 732-572-0500</span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-79775910345078205182022-04-13T16:48:00.003-04:002022-04-13T16:48:50.228-04:00Civil cases default judgment can be obtained against a party who has failed to respond<p> <span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> A default judgment can be obtained against a party who has failed to respond, i.e., “plead”, or whose pleading has been stricken by the court and against whom default has been entered. Application may be made after entry of default judgment to vacate or void the judgment. According to R. 4:43-2, default judgment can be entered in the following ways: </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">·</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> by the clerk, if the plaintiff’s claim is for a sum certain or for a sum which can by computation be made certain, and </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">·</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in such cases, a valid affidavit of proof must be filed; and </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">·</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in all other cases, by the court, on notice of motion, after a proof hearing is held. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In addition, pursuant to the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act (SCRA) 50 U.S.C. § 521, its New Jersey counterpart, N.J.S.A. 38:23C-4, and R. 1:5-7, an affidavit of nonmilitary service must be filed with any application for default judgment. 12-2 Updated as of April 1, 2007 It should be noted that the entry of default and default judgment cannot be done simultaneously in the Civil Part. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Default must be entered and the defaulted party provided with notice of the entry before a default judgment may be sought and entered. See R. 4:43-2. Rule 4:43-2(b) was recently amended to require that applications for entry of default judgment be brought by notice of motion. Attorneys must make a motion with the relief sought being an order scheduling the proof hearing on a selected date. On the return date of the motion, if no opposition is filed, the motion presumably would be granted on the papers, an order signed and served at the same address as the motion, and the proof hearing would take place on the date specified in the order (not a motion day, but a date convenient to the court and the moving party). If opposition is filed, the court will address it on the return date and, if the opposition is unfounded, will schedule the proof hearing date, advise the parties of the date on the record, and also put the date in the order.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-36957438653156308062022-03-28T14:41:00.003-04:002022-03-28T14:41:17.293-04:00 State bar on eviction does not apply mot ejectment actions- 4 Highpoint LLC v. Durelli Defendants appealed an order granting possession a residential property in an ejectment action.<p> <b style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 54px;">State bar on eviction does not apply mot ejectment actions-</b></p><p style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 54px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b>4 Highpoint LLC v. Durelli</b></span></p><p style="color: #878787; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Defendants appealed an order granting possession a residential property in an ejectment action.</span></p><ul><li style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #e4e7f1;"></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: #e4e7f1; font-kerning: none;">Case Number: a0949-20_011222</span></li></ul><p style="color: #011da4; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="color: #353535; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Defendants appealed an order granting possession a residential property in an ejectment action. Defendants owned the house before a mortgage foreclosure in 2018. Mortgagee purchased the property and obtained a writ of possession in January 2019 but did not execute the writ and sold the property to plaintiff in September 2020. Plaintiff knew the property was occupied and that EO 106, a moratorium against removal of evicted tenants and foreclosed owners, was in effect. Plaintiff's efforts to come to an agreement with defendants failed and plaintiff instituted ejectment proceedings. Trial court found EO 106 was not meant to "protect trespassers and criminal activity," found that based on defendants' testimony, they were trying to stay in the property "to wear it out to uselessness" and held lockout was necessary in the interests of justice. Defendants' motion to stay the lockout was denied. They appealed arguing their removal was contrary to EO 106. Court noted the moratorium in EO 106 had expired and defendants' appeal was moot because there was no reason to restore their possession of the property. Additionally, trial court properly found that EO 106 did not apply to ejectment actions. EO 106 only barred removals of individuals in legal possession of the property and did not apply to squatters. source https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/almID/1642019742NJa0949200/</span></p>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-3064183669713791762022-01-16T09:47:00.003-05:002022-01-16T09:47:33.288-05:00 RULE 2:11. ARGUMENT; DETERMINATION; COSTS; REHEARING 2:11-1. Appellate Calendar; Oral Argument<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">RULE 2:11. ARGUMENT; DETERMINATION; COSTS; REHEARING 2:11-1. Appellate Calendar; Oral Argument</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">(a) Calendar. The clerk of the appellate court shall enter all appeals upon a docket in chronological order and, except for appeals on leave granted or from orders compelling or denying arbitration which shall be entitled to a preference, cases shall be argued or submitted for consideration without argument in the order of perfection, insofar as practicable, unless the court otherwise directs with respect to a category of cases or unless the court enters an order of acceleration as to a particular appeal on its own or a party’s motion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">(b) Oral Argument.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">(1) n the Supreme Court, appeals shall be argued orally unless the court dispenses with argument.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">(2) In the Appellate Division, appeals shall be submitted for consideration without argument, unless argument is requested by one of the parties within 14 days after service of the respondent’s brief or is ordered by the court. Such request shall be made by a separate captioned paper filed with the Clerk in duplicate. The clerk shall notify counsel of the assigned argument date. If one of the parties has filed a timely request for oral argument, the other parties may rely upon that request and need not file their own separate requests for argument. A party may withdraw its request for oral argument only if it has the consent to do so from all other parties participating in the appeal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">(3) Counsel shall not be permitted to argue for a party who has neither filed a brief nor joined in another party’s brief. The appellant shall be entitled to open and conclude argument. An appeal and cross appeal shall be argued together, the party first appealing being entitled to open and conclude, unless the court otherwise orders. Unless the court determines more time is necessary, each party will be allowed 30 minutes for argument in the Supreme Court and 15 minutes in the Appellate Division, but the court may terminate the argument at any time it deems the issues adequately argued. No more than two attorneys will be heard for each party in the Appellate Division, and one attorney will be heard for each party in the Supreme Court, unless the Court otherwise orders. An attorney will not be permitted to read at length from the briefs, appendices, transcripts or decision.</span></p></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-42862327385602769942022-01-13T21:36:00.003-05:002022-01-13T21:36:28.066-05:00Plaintiffs did not waiver right to seek court rather than arb JIMMY SEESE and MIRAN SEESE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JOHN LOGRASSO<p>Plaintiffs did not waiver right to seek court rather than arb</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">JIMMY SEESE and MIRAN SEESE, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">JOHN LOGRASSO, a/k/a GIOVANNI LOGRASSO, individually and doing business<br />as LG4 GROUP, LG4 GROUP, Inc., MUNAFO DESIGN, LLC, and JACOB SOLOMON RA, AIA, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Defendants-Respondents. _____________________________ </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION<br />DOCKET NO. A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Submitted November 1, 2021 – Decided December 22, 2021 Before Judges Sumners and Firko. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Bergen County, Docket No. L-3529-20. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS, serif; font-size: 11pt;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 9pt;">This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiffs Jimmy Seese and Miran Seese appeal the motion judge's order </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">granting defendants John LoGrasso a/k/a Giovanni LoGrasso and LG4 Group Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration and dismissing plaintiffs' complaint. Plaintiffs alleged defendants committed fraud and were negligent in fulfilling the terms of the parties' written agreement in which defendants were hired to demolish plaintiffs' old house and construct them a new house. We reverse because the agreement failed to put plaintiffs on notice, as required by Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Grp., L.P., 219 N.J. 430 (2014), that they were waiving their right to resolve their disputes in the trial court in favor of arbitration. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 [U.S.C.] §§ 1-16, and the nearly identical New Jersey Arbitration Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:23B-1 to -32, enunciate federal and state policies favoring arbitration." Atalese, 219 N.J. at 440 (citing AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333, 339 (2011)). Under the FAA, arbitration is a creature of contract. 9 U.S.C. § 2; Rent-A-Ctr., W., Inc. v. Jackson, 561 U.S. 63, 67 (2010); see also Hirsch v. Amper Fin. Servs., LLC, 215 N.J. 174, 187 (2013) (explaining that under New Jersey law, arbitration is </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page2image879717072" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bc0f6122-b175-48a1-a46f-d913a16cdca1" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_42" width="44" /><img alt="page2image879717360" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fef1c789-8f15-4903-9c40-f325276e2ec0" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_41" width="188" /><img alt="page2image879717648" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5ce3272a-00db-4ae0-99e4-49f38abf9e42" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_40" width="44" /><img alt="page2image879717936" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f122dc96-97de-466b-b10d-39168648c51f" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_39" width="221" /><img alt="page2image879718224" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d11074e7-2201-401c-92c0-dab87036afeb" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_38" width="126" /><img alt="page2image879718512" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/72c6b38b-d677-4c0f-b5b0-5597d6d00282" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_37" width="61" /><img alt="page2image879718800" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2b90fae4-ba1e-4b6a-9fa7-4f509b3458e2" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_36" width="46" /><img alt="page2image879719088" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9835d5f8-00d8-4722-b043-5301c590c2bf" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_35" width="201" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">also a creature of contract). "[T]he FAA 'permits states to regulate . . . arbitration agreements under general contract principles,' and a court may invalidate an arbitration clause 'upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.'" Atalese, 219 N.J. at 441 (quoting Martindale v. Sandvik, Inc., 173 N.J. 76, 85 (2002)). </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Appellate courts "apply a de novo standard of review when determining the enforceability of contracts, including arbitration agreements." Goffe v. Foulke Mgmt. Corp., 238 N.J. 191, 207 (2019) (citing Hirsch, 215 N.J. at 186). "The enforceability of arbitration provisions is a question of law . . . ." Ibid. (citing Morgan v. Sanford Brown Inst., 225 N.J. 289, 303 (2016)). No deference is owed to a trial court's "interpretative analysis." Morgan, 225 N.J. at 303 (citing Atalese, 219 N.J. at 445-46). Despite reviewing orders compelling or denying arbitration with the "mind[set] of the strong preference to enforce arbitration agreements," Hirsch</span><i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, </span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">215 N.J. at 186, the policy favoring arbitration is "not without limits[,]" <span style="background-color: white;">Garfinkel v. Morristown Obstetrics & Gynecology Assocs., P.A., 168 N.J. 124, 132 (2001).</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is unequivocal that "a party cannot be required to submit to arbitration any dispute which [she or] he has not agreed so to submit." Angrisani v. Fin. Tech. Ventures, L.P., 402 N.J. Super. 138, 148 (App. Div. 2008) (citing AT&T </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page3image205120336" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5cffd2e7-1928-4bbd-b395-ee53d226f6f5" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_34" width="44" /><img alt="page3image205120624" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/12e5832c-c5ca-4da0-b7c8-f8b159904e19" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_33" width="161" /><img alt="page3image205120912" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8bf95623-c147-4bde-a8c3-932bde4521b5" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_32" width="51" /><img alt="page3image205121200" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/799c2a47-ed6a-4fab-bc57-6e0b25dac0ad" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_31" width="120" /><img alt="page3image205121488" height="1" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/58c740cb-4709-4a9d-8e1d-1c8d2a49608c" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_30" width="39" /><img alt="page3image205121776" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0d4db910-d309-4059-8d92-9794ef026b26" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_29" width="180" /><img alt="page3image205122064" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/055cf87b-5e55-4cf5-8d0f-efea8be632bd" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_28" width="46" /><img alt="page3image205122352" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/346b391c-c572-4eac-a395-d7dd37d1d570" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_27" width="44" /><img alt="page3image205122768" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/18a334c0-d133-4384-9667-795047077108" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_26" width="39" /><img alt="page3image205124208" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d737772e-e765-426d-8adb-a61b29d2b135" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_25" width="101" /><img alt="page3image205124496" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/687c5aea-fee1-44da-8980-10ba6ac95a60" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_24" width="122" /><img alt="page3image205124784" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b501d58f-06a4-4c46-bbda-2a127d548251" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_23" width="39" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Techs. v. Commc'n Workers of Am., 475 U.S. 643, 648 (1986)); Grover & Universal Underwriters Ins. Co., 80 N.J. 221, 228 (1979) (<span style="background-color: white;">"In the absence of a consensual understanding, neither party is entitled to force the other to arbitrate their dispute."). </span>"An agreement to arbitrate, like any other contract, 'must be the product of mutual assent, as determined under customary principles of contract law.'" Atalese, 219 N.J. at 442 (quoting NAACP of Camden Cnty. E. v. Foulke Mgmt. Corp., 421 N.J. Super. 404, 424 (App. Div. 2011)). "A contract arises from offer and acceptance, and must be sufficiently definite 'that the performance to be rendered by each party can be ascertained with reasonable certainty.'" Weichert Co. Realtors v. Ryan, 128 N.J. 427, 435 (1992) (citations omitted). Where parties agree on essential terms and manifest some intention to be bound by those terms, an enforceable contract is created. Ibid. Hence, a court must determine whether a valid agreement to arbitrate exists before it can decide whether the dispute in question falls within the scope of the agreement. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, 473 U.S. 614, 626 (1985); Martindale, 173 N.J. at 92. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page4image205349104" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/390ee8d7-d61f-4535-9f99-56ad9c21b4f0" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_22" width="224" /><img alt="page4image205349392" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1cb1c129-c2fb-4a78-8778-9f7a103f24d2" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_21" width="58" /><img alt="page4image205349968" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cd541b67-c4f7-43eb-9898-657018f058c2" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_20" width="190" /><img alt="page4image205350832" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c1766635-69f3-4c1c-9e8b-c2f89e3964a9" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_19" width="44" /><img alt="page4image205351120" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/48b04864-3f00-4273-97f2-74109decb1f1" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_18" width="228" /><img alt="page4image205351536" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/be1383f2-4417-409d-8e57-caac88306dba" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_17" width="77" /><img alt="page4image205351824" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e84e5a01-3948-4e17-abd2-fd105fed9d82" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_16" width="181" /><img alt="page4image205352112" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d7a50d56-10df-4233-8e4d-6ccb16e93c3e" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_15" width="309" /><img alt="page4image205352400" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c2c4188e-e491-474c-aa97-8093b72d28ce" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_14" width="64" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To be enforceable, an arbitration agreement must be clear in stating that the parties are agreeing to arbitrate and give up the right to pursue a claim in court. In that regard, the Atalese Court explained: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page4image205376304" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4b7b4fc5-e1f3-47b9-b4e2-33273a6ee4c8" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_13" width="44" /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mutual assent requires that the parties have an understanding of the terms to which they have agreed. "An effective waiver requires a party to have full knowledge of his legal rights and intent to surrender those rights." "By its very nature, an agreement to arbitrate involves a waiver of a party's right to have her claims and defenses litigated in court." But an average member of the public may not know––without some explanatory comment––that arbitration is a substitute for the right to have one's claim adjudicated in a court of law. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">.... </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">No particular form of words is necessary to accomplish a clear and unambiguous waiver of rights. . . . Arbitration clauses––and other contractual clauses–– will pass muster when phrased in plain language that is understandable to the reasonable [person]. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">[219 N.J. at 442, 444 (citations omitted).]<br />In holding the parties did not enter into an enforceable agreement to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">arbitrate, the Court observed: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nowhere in the arbitration clause is there any explanation that plaintiff is waiving her right to seek relief in court for a breach of her statutory rights. . . . The provision does not explain what arbitration is, nor does it indicate how arbitration is different from a proceeding in a court of law. Nor is it written in plain language that would be clear and understandable to the average consumer that she is waiving statutory rights. The clause here has none of the language our courts have found satisfactory in upholding arbitration provisions—clear and unambiguous language that the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">plaintiff is waiving her right to sue or go to court to secure relief. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">[Id. at 446.] </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moreover, because the parties' agreement is a consumer contract under N.J.S.A. 56:12-1––defendants provided demolition and construction services to plaintiffs––it must "be written in a simple, clear, understandable and easily readable way." N.J.S.A. 56:12-2. In considering whether an agreement includes a waiver of a party's right to pursue a case in a judicial forum, "clarity is required." Moore v. Woman to Woman Obstetrics & Gynecology, L.L.C., 416 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2010). "For any waiver-of-rights provision to be effective, the party who gives up rights must 'have full knowledge of his legal rights and intent to surrender those rights.'" Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc., 244 N.J. 30, 48 (2020) (quoting Knorr v. Smeal, 178 N.J. 169, 177 (2003)). That is, the waiver "must be clearly and unmistakably established," Garfinkel, 168 N.J. at 132, and "should clearly state its purpose." Marchak v. Claridge Commons, 134 N.J. 275, 282 (1993). </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Guided by these standards, we agree with plaintiffs that the parties did not enter into an enforceable agreement to arbitrate. There was no meeting of the minds to arbitrate their disputes arising from their agreement because the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">6 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">arbitration clause was not clearly and plainly written to make them aware that they were surrendering their rights to pursue claims in court. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In her oral decision, the motion judge reasoned: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">[I]t's clear that . . . all disputes would be [resolved] by arbitration[,] and I don't think that the reference to court and court-appointed mediator or the court reporter is sufficient to create confusion and, yes, I think that it is sufficient. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The judge, however, failed to consider the clear declaration in Atalese that an arbitration clause must put plaintiffs on notice that they were waiving their right to trial to resolve disputes. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page7image78051328" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5cffd2e7-1928-4bbd-b395-ee53d226f6f5" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_12" width="44" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The arbitration clause reads: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">All disputes here under including but not limited to disputes over progress payments and the nature of the work performed at the subject construction site shall be submitted to binding arbitration in Bergen County, New Jersey. The court appointed commercial arbitrator shall be selected to hear all disputes arising hereunder and the parties shall each pay one-half (1/2) of the arbitrator's hourly fees and court reporting and transcript fees in connection with the binding arbitration. The court appointed arbitrator shall apply the Rules of Merit and Arbitration Associations in an effort in effect at the time the arbitration is selected and all parties shall be bound by the arbitrator's decision/award. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color: black black black windowtext; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1.5pt; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This clause presents the same deficiencies the Court addressed in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: black; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Atalese </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It does not include any language explaining what arbitration is and how it serves </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">7 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">as a replacement for judicial relief. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It does <span style="background-color: white;">not convey to the average consumer that he or she is waiving a constitutional right to seek relief in a court of law. While the clause does state arbitration would be final and binding, t</span>here is nothing in the record that plaintiffs knew or should have known the arbitration clause was a waiver of their right to trial. In fact, the clause is susceptible to the notion that arbitration was a form of trial in court because of its use of the term "the court appointed arbitrator," thus leading a layperson to think the arbitrator is a component of the court. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiffs did not consult an attorney to review the agreement. We reject defendants' contention that plaintiffs, particularly Jimmy Sesse, a podiatrist, were "sophisticated parties" because they made numerous notations and initialed changes to the agreement during their negotiations prior to finalizing their agreement. This did not establish plaintiffs were made aware defendants intended that their disputes could not be resolved in court. Their purported sophistication based on being detail-oriented in the construction of their new home does not equate to the skills and insights of an attorney. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The arbitration clause is unlike the one in Roman v. Bergen Logistics, LLC, that we found to be enforceable because it "informed plaintiff that the exclusive forum for resolution of her claims was arbitration, she was prohibited </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page8image78375152" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/99b30a9a-53a6-440c-af1d-714a87df550d" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_11" width="165" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">8 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">from filing any other lawsuits or legal proceedings and she waived her right to a trial by jury." 456 N.J. Super. 157, 172 (App. Div. 2018). The arbitration clause in Roman stated the parties agreed not to "file or maintain any lawsuit, action or legal proceeding of any nature with respect to any dispute" and that "by signing this agreement [the parties] are waiving any right, statutory or otherwise, to a trial by jury." Id. at 162-63 (emphasis omitted). </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In reaching our conclusion that there is no enforceable arbitration clause, we are fully aware that arbitration is a "particularly useful means for resolving construction-contract cases" because "[i]n technical areas such as home building . . . arbitrators often bring expertise that can facilitate a fair and efficient resolution of a dispute." Marchak 134 N.J. at 281. Defendants failed to clearly spell out in their agreement with plaintiffs that arbitration was the only mechanism to resolve disputes arising from the demolition and construction project. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lastly, we reject defendants' argument that if we reverse the trial judge's order, we should do so without prejudice and follow the Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 standard of limited discovery. Defendants' reliance on Guidotti v. Legal Helpers Debt Resolution, LLC, 716 F.3d 764, 776 (3d Cir. 2013) in support of this argument is misplaced.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page9image78586304" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/29e3e2b6-1fb1-4ff5-bc9e-1fcd9d2dc562" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_10" width="41" /><img alt="page9image78586592" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/22150b1c-3532-42e5-8279-b7103f3b8367" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_9" width="51" /><img alt="page9image78586880" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fa1307cd-ef0f-41ff-91f1-25f7de3511da" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_8" width="93" /><img alt="page9image78587168" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/597053b5-fea7-4e7f-abc0-57c088b91d0b" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_7" width="148" /><img alt="page9image78587456" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eee5b666-07e9-405f-97e1-d8a8dc8959d0" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6" width="135" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">9 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color: windowtext black black; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In Guidotti, the Third Circuit held that if "based on the face of a complaint, and documents relied upon in the complaint" it is apparent that the parties' claims "are subject to an enforceable arbitration clause, a motion to compel arbitration should be considered under a [Fed. R. Civ. P.]12(b)(6) [motion to dismiss] standard." Ibid</span><i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS, serif; font-size: 14pt;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, if the complaint is unclear as to whether </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page10image79820704" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/90a1d2dc-f83e-4968-900d-2764e63b5d54" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5" width="49" /><img alt="page10image79820992" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/01e66fc5-5b57-4011-b790-fba8d6bccebd" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4" width="91" /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: black; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: black; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">there is an agreement to arbitrate, or if the plaintiff has responded with additional facts sufficient to place the agreement to arbitrate in issue, then "the parties should be entitled to discovery [under Rule 56] on the question of arbitrability." Ibid. (citation omitted). The dispositive issue was whether the arbitration clause was included in the initial package of documents emailed to the plaintiff. Id. at 780. The Third Circuit determined there was a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the parties agreed to arbitrate. Ibid. Consequently, the court analyzed the dispute under the summary judgment standard and remanded to the district court for limited discovery on the specific challenge to the mutuality of assent to the arbitration agreement. Ibid. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here, there was no genuine issue of material fact. Unlike the plaintiffs in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: black; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: black; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Giudotti, plaintiffs are not arguing that they did not receive the arbitration clause. As noted, they argue the arbitration clause alone is unenforceable because it failed to put them on notice that they were waiving their right to a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page10image79942736" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9405e668-546e-40be-b73b-4b22a03d18a5" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3" width="49" /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">10 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-color: windowtext black black; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; padding: 0.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">trial as required by Atalese. Plaintiffs correctly point out this is not a factual dispute warranting discovery but a matter of contract interpretation, an issue of law. Therefore, we reverse the trial judge's order with prejudice because the arbitration clause is unenforceable as a matter of law. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reversed and remanded. We do not retain jurisdiction. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page11image79785072" height="33" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5cffd2e7-1928-4bbd-b395-ee53d226f6f5" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2" width="44" /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: black; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: black; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0.75pt;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="page11image79744928" height="60" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/169e2f2d-93a6-4940-b200-34b3ae5123b2" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="124" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 14pt;">11 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 8pt;">A-1378-20 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-70636610522105340862021-09-06T20:26:00.000-04:002021-09-06T20:26:20.042-04:00Landlord Tenant - Promulgation of Certification of Lease and Registration Statement Form<p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 18.66666603088379px; font-weight: bold;">Landlord Tenant - Promulgation of Certification of Lease and Registration Statement Form</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 18.66666603088379px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><img alt="page1image895355824" height="50.948938" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5b02f579-748c-4b50-a902-1290044cb01f" width="202.449991" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: teal; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Administrative Office of the Courts</span></p><p><span style="color: teal; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700;">GLENN A. GRANT, J.A.D.</span></p><p><span style="color: teal; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt;">Acting Administrative Director of the Courts</span></p><p><span style="color: grey; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex • P.O. Box 037 • Trenton, NJ 08625-0037 njcourts.gov </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">• </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Tel: 609-376-3000 </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">• </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Fax: 609-376-3002 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">TO: Assignment Judges</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Trial Court Administrators FROM: Glenn A. Grant, J.A.D.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">SUBJECT: Landlord Tenant - Promulgation of Certification of Lease and Registration Statement Form</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">DATE: September 1, 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Directive #21-21, issued August 23, 2021, promulgated new landlord tenant forms consistent with the Court’s July 14, 2021 Orders and Administrative Determinations for use as of September 1, 2021. This Supplement promulgates a new Certification of Lease and Registration Statement form for use by landlords in connection with a case management conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">As provided by the Court’s July 14, 2021 Order, landlords are required to file a copy of the lease (or, if the lease exceeds 10 pages, the relevant portions of the lease); the registration statement, if applicable; and a certification of the landlord’s lease and registration statement in a form to be promulgated by the Administrative Director. In addition, landlords shall submit a copy of the rent control statement if requested by the court. All required documents shall be filed five days before the case management conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Any questions related to this Supplement to Directive #21-21 or the attached form should be directed to the Civil Practice Division at (609) 815-2900 ext. 54900 or </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">civilwebsites.mbx@njcourts.gov</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attachment:<br />Certification of Lease and Registration Statement Form (CN 12842)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image625024416" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/31a9be7e-5abd-4dbd-8ced-536a2f8efedd" width="180.000000" /> <img alt="page1image625024704" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fcd74a70-feac-4854-9fac-49e429773a16" width="61.560000" /> <img alt="page1image625024992" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2c841cc2-3c88-421f-8ed6-6c0ec0fd64ee" width="102.000000" /> <img alt="page1image625025280" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/56d94af8-1050-4f66-a48c-a4941905acec" width="178.560000" /> <img alt="page1image625025568" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/31f85a36-0a41-452c-8a5f-bb9fdf3d788c" width="180.000000" /><img alt="page1image625025856" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bc8899dd-b497-41db-bd9f-0f73ece1c981" width="133.560000" /> <img alt="page1image625026144" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cbf99747-79f1-44e0-a2dd-e4e7487384d3" width="43.560000" /> <img alt="page1image625026560" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fca4de1f-cb67-4bd9-ad05-fd4576f32f8d" width="178.560000" /> <img alt="page1image625026848" height="48.750000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e52673ad-b091-45b2-a6e8-aebb01e4f2eb" width="258.950000" /> <img alt="page1image625027136" height="44.967000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c4c41964-e7ab-4c66-97e7-9fcefb56f61a" width="35.274283" /><img alt="page1image625027424" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b339623b-e124-4029-accc-c1dd99b83f32" width="470.880000" /> <img alt="page1image625027712" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ee112404-c2fe-48d2-9581-8dc3d64d127b" width="184.081000" /><img alt="page1image625028000" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/911cd843-7d31-4555-ae77-490b30837846" width="135.000000" /> <img alt="page1image625028288" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/803b9ebe-4d2f-4c8e-92b3-64afa535ac9a" width="133.920000" /> <img alt="page1image625028576" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/48a04db9-62c0-47eb-9de1-b7b089c881cb" width="134.160000" /> <img alt="page1image625029120" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/03aa1f01-a067-4ff3-ae13-24b9256832dd" width="134.040000" /> <img alt="page1image625029312" height="35.999995" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0797eed2-722e-457f-aa9d-ad897a187c43" width="35.999995" /> <img alt="page1image625029616" height="35.999996" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/068d772f-ee02-4e04-830c-a2c2e7e1af18" width="35.999996" /> <img alt="page1image625029920" height="35.994000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bfced6f5-7d38-4efe-a71f-0e038e2fd05a" width="66.949970" /> <img alt="page1image625030224" height="35.979585" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cf7242c3-071e-4fd4-838f-53d44d5c9c47" width="53.249983" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Page 1 of 2</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">S</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700;">UPPLEMENT TO </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">D</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700;">IRECTIVE </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">#21-21</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">[Questions or comments may be directed to (609) 815- 2900, ext. 54900]</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image625044720" height="1.680000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f6526cac-5565-486b-84d6-01a6ea74c146" width="241.080000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">Supplement to Directive #21-21 – Landlord Tenant – Certification of Lease and Registration Statement Form September 1, 2021<br />Page 2 of 2</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">cc: Chief Justice Stuart Rabner Civil Presiding Judges</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Supervising Special Civil Part Judges Steven D. Bonville, Chief of Staff AOC Directors and Assistant Directors Clerks of Court</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Special Assistants to the Administrative Director<br />Civil Division Managers and Assistant Division Managers (SCP) Melissa A. Czartoryski, Chief, Civil Practice<br />Bridget Dorney Chater, Civil Practice</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Page 2 of 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Name:<br />Attorney ID Number: Address:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Telephone Number: Email Address:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff/ Landlord v.</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Landlord-Tenant<br />County</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket Number: LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Certification of Lease and Registration Statement</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Residential </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Commercial </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">, (Esq.) of full age, being duly sworn according to law,</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image925743584" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3847f818-f129-441f-b7c2-7a2b41148e68" width="233.761000" /> <img alt="page3image925743872" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4cbe0903-fa42-4139-9367-3a1c2ffbf9de" width="162.000000" /> <img alt="page3image925744160" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ee3d7c34-de8b-4cc0-936f-be528caa20b7" width="225.000000" /><img alt="page3image925744448" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2c920f25-2e96-48c6-8425-e8bd61ac63aa" width="225.000000" /> <img alt="page3image925744736" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f573d485-9476-44fc-b92c-3769e0c7ac2b" width="171.000000" /> <img alt="page3image925745024" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fce295f0-7e3c-4d59-99da-d6bbce40cee2" width="193.500000" /><img alt="page3image925745312" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0cc292d2-41aa-49c5-851b-325511b41774" width="269.700000" /> <img alt="page3image925745600" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/576236df-7d0c-4ff7-b91b-5e55f069cb45" width="103.560000" /> <img alt="page3image925746016" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2107e889-3e17-4886-8a90-4661a4a9c99d" width="126.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant/ Tenant(s)<br />certify and say (select one option for each of the following):</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image925755920" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/faf25291-72a8-4938-a791-26b94a4dabf0" width="269.700000" /> <img alt="page3image925756208" height="0.660000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f8e57acc-8344-4587-a68f-9a62797fa035" width="210.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the plaintiff/landlord </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">an attorney at law duly licensed to practice in the state of New Jersey in the above-captioned landlord tenant action.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The lease that is the subject of this action is: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">attached in full </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">attached in pertinent part and the full lease document is in excess of 10 pages </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">not the subject of a written agreement.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">3. </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I have attached a copy of any registration statement for the residential rental property required by the Landlord Registration Act N.J.S.A. 46:8-27.<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The property is exempt from registration pursuant to N.J.S.A. 46:8-28.5(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true. I am aware that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Dated (Signature of Attorney/Self-Represented Landlord) (Printed Name of Attorney/Self-Represented Landlord)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image925853184" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a8b7dbd1-927f-4ea9-83cd-346be745eda6" width="121.500000" /> <img alt="page3image925853472" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7a0e7888-ae6c-4694-b553-c4652a2d3626" width="301.500000" /> <img alt="page3image925853760" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/46dda874-dac9-4c25-92e4-5c44bbfc00e1" width="301.500000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021, CN 12842</span></p></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-7610915025261775532021-09-06T08:37:00.005-04:002021-09-06T08:37:42.472-04:00 LANDLORD TENANT – SUPREME COURT ACTION: (1) ADMINISTRATIVE DETERMINATIONS ON THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE JUDICIARY SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON LANDLORD TENANT; (2) ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT PROCESS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2021; AND (3) AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF COURT<p> <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">L</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ANDLORD </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">T</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ENANT </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">– S</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">UPREME </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">C</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">OURT </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">A</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">CTION</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; 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font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">AND </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) A</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">MENDMENTS TO THE </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">R</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ULES OF </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">C</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">OURT-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTICE TO THE BAR AND PUBLIC</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Administrative Determinations</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Published with this notice are the Supreme Court’s Administrative Determinations on the Report and Recommendations of the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant (“Special Committee”). The Special Committee’s April 2021 </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">report</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">, which contained 18 recommendations, was published for comment by </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">notice </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">dated April 21, 2021. Having considered the report and 77 </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">public comments</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">, the Court has reviewed and acted on each of those 18 recommendations, as set forth in the attached Administrative Determinations document.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Consistent with the Court’s Administrative Determinations, two Orders dated July 14, 2021 also are attached: one that establishes the new residential landlord tenant process, and one that amends certain Court Rules so as to implement some of those landlord tenant reforms.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Landlord Tenant Process Order</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In furtherance of the Court’s Administrative Determinations, the Court’s first attached July 14, 2021 Order relaxes and supplements various Rules of Court so as to implement a new process for residential landlord tenant cases, effective September 1, 2021. As stated in the Order, the new landlord tenant process is intended to “support greater equity for both tenants and landlords.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Order Amending Rules of Court and Appendices</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Implementation of the Special Committee’s recommendations as approved by the Supreme Court will be accomplished in part through amendments to the Rules of Court and Appendices to those Rules. Accordingly, attached is a separate July 14, 2021 Order, which amends Rule 6:6-4 (“Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement”) and Appendices XI-G (“Warrant of</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image1279933104" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f811b48d-4a1d-4422-8708-becfbcad5310" width="404.880000" /><img alt="page1image1279933392" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f3f047ab-e4f4-41eb-91c8-ad85e79bb952" width="460.320000" /><img alt="page1image1279933680" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7dd3d001-a555-47bd-82aa-82ffb68d0f62" width="435.960000" /><img alt="page1image1279933968" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/49e40d3d-b4b4-465b-8ae6-e09d8556b408" width="433.920000" /> <img alt="page1image1279934256" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ecc1e362-4dc4-4502-8cd9-03ba3ca86fd7" width="250.800000" /><img alt="page1image1279934544" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7740a8d8-aaa7-4d94-a269-bb3863cf88b2" width="173.760000" /> <img alt="page1image1279934832" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6ad5a6f6-a717-495f-b153-2a554a66427c" width="33.480000" /> <img alt="page1image1279935120" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/da6a9586-c7f1-4276-a119-7895885fd905" width="34.200000" /> <img alt="page1image1279935536" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e66b09af-1238-4cc9-97ba-e14bf62ec469" width="96.120000" /> <img alt="page1image1279935824" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b2b64d01-7b2c-441c-8034-3cc1bcb57d3a" width="176.160000" /><img alt="page1image1279936112" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0f49d95e-762f-4634-8a20-2dd7fd9f6495" width="274.560000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section"><img alt="page2image1141609008" height="789.829000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/72d88072-080f-4617-8079-6f171cf01ca2" width="610.010000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal"), XI-S ("Landlord Tenant Pre-Calendar Call Instructions"), and XI-V ("Consent to Enter </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Judgment </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">(Tenant Remains)"), effective September 1, 2021.</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Additional New and </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Revised </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Forms</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">As </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">detailed </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">in the Court's Administrative Determinations, additional new and revised forms also will be promulgated, </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">posted </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">on the </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Judiciary</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">'s </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">website, and</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">incorporated </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">in the </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Judiciary's electronic case management systems on or before September 1, 2021.</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Additional Information</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">The Judiciary is continuing </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">to </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">work closely with the Department </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Community Affairs (DCA) and to monitor </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">le</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">gis</span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">lation </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">that would affect landlord tenant proceedings. As </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">noted </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">in the Court's </span><span style="color: #2561b5; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">July 1, 2021 Order </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">(which established an interim process for mandatory settlement conferences pending implementation </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the reforms announced in the attached </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">documents</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">), </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">and in the attached </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">July </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">14, 2021 Order on new </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">landlord tenant </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">processes, the Court will make adjustments as necessary in </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">light </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">any actions by </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Governor.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2561b5; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Information </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">about rental assistance and </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">legal </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">assistance for tenants and </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">landlords </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">affected </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">by </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the COVID-19 pandemic is posted on the Judiciary's website.</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Questions about this </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">notice</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">, </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Administrative Determinations on the</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Report and Recommendations </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Judiciary </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Special Committee on Landlord</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Tenant, or the Court's attached July 14, 2021 Orders may be </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">directed </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">to the Civil</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Practice Division </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Administrative Office </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Courts at (609) 815-2900</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">x549</span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">00.</span></p><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Dated: July </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">14</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">, </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">2021</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Hon. Glenn A. Grant, J.A.D.<br />Acting Administrative Director </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #151515; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Courts</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Administrative Determinations by the Supreme Court on the Report and Recommendations of the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant (Issued July 14, 2021)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Supreme Court has acted on the April 2021 </span><span style="color: #0562c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">report and recommendations </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">of the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant, which the Court previously published for comment. This document sets out the Court’s administrative determinations as to each of the Special Committee’s recommendations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In furtherance of the Court’s approval of reforms of the landlord tenant process, the Judiciary is in the process of enhancing its electronic filing and case management systems. Additionally, as recommended by the Special Committee and authorized by the Court in its earlier June 3, 2021 Order, all vicinages are now in the process of hiring and training a number of Landlord Tenant Legal Specialists. These steps will enable implementation of the Court’s approved actions as set forth in these Administrative Determinations on or before September 1, 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The new and revised court forms appended to this document will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website and accessible with the Judiciary’s electronic filings systems for general use as of September 1, 2021, or earlier as the necessary technological enhancements are implemented.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">As noted herein, certain other actions approved by the Court are effective immediately, including amendments to the Court Rules adopted by July 14, 2021 order.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">FILING</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 1: The Special Committee recommended that landlords should be required to submit a Landlord Case Information Statement (LCIS). That LCIS would capture pertinent information and would support case management and efficient, early review by staff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified to provide that statements on the Landlord Case Information Statement (LCIS) are not admissible as evidence, and to eliminate certain questions. For pending cases, landlords will be advised to file the LCIS five days before a mandatory conference. For new filings, the LCIS would be filed with the complaint.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image1240374784" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b602a28d-386b-4e88-b846-f095f1bf5763" width="160.320000" /> <img alt="page3image1240375072" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fbb3f17d-4940-46c9-beac-25443c2f3b27" width="49.800000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 1-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The LCIS (Attachment 1) will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website and made available in the electronic filing system.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 2: The Special Committee recommended that tenants should complete a Tenant Case Information Statement (TCIS).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified to provide that statements on the Tenant Case Information Statement (TCIS) are not admissible as evidence. Tenants will be advised to file the TCIS five days before a mandatory conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The TCIS (Attachment 2) will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website and made available in the electronic filing system.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 3: The Special Committee recommended that the Judiciary should implement a process for enhanced, initial review of landlord tenant complaints.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified to require such enhanced review only for more complex cases that involve public housing, other subsidized housing, and holdover cases. Non-payment cases that do not require statutory notice to tenants will not be subject to enhanced review.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">BEFORE TRIAL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 4: The Special Committee recommended that the Judiciary should expand opportunities for resolving landlord tenant cases before trial by establishing a Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist (LTLS) Program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Court’s June 3, 2021 </span><span style="color: #0562c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Order </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Attachment 3) authorized the establishment of the Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist Program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 5: The Special Committee recommended that all landlord tenant cases should be scheduled for required case management conferences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page4image938745376" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/df60956e-8396-4d50-9565-5b09a6d1a81c" width="105.360000" /> <img alt="page4image938745664" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/85c815f4-e6cb-4f57-8db0-ddd999a4b922" width="32.760000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 2-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">At the required case management conference, the LTLS will complete the Landlord Tenant Case Management Conference Information Sheet (Attachment 4), which will be accessible to the court and the parties.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 6: The Special Committee recommended that a landlord should be required to submit a copy of the lease, the landlord’s registration statement (if applicable), and a certification of the landlord’s lease and registration statement before the case management conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified as follows: (1) in addition to the lease and registration statement, a landlord also must file a copy of the rent control statement if specifically requested by the court; (2) if the lease exceeds 10 pages, the landlord must file only the relevant provisions; and (3) all required documents (lease, registration statement, and rent control statement if requested by the court) must be submitted five days before the required case management conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 7: The Special Committee recommended that case management conferences should provide benefits to both parties, including options to connect with rental assistance and legal resources. Non-appearance by a party at the required case management conference should have a consequence. At least initially, however, the consequence would not be dispositive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified to require only one required conference before the trial date. Cases that do not</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">resolve at that conference will be scheduled for a pretrial conference on the date of trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 8: The Special Committee recommended that, in addition to case management conferences, the Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist would also conduct settlement conferences. Such settlement efforts could immediately follow the case management portion of the conference and generally would be conducted virtually.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 9: The Special Committee recommended that Appendix XI-V “Consent to Enter Judgment (Tenant Remains)” should be revised to allow for</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 19pt;">---</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 3-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">selection by the parties of one of two options: (1) immediate entry of judgment for possession; or, alternatively, (2) entry of the judgment for possession only after receipt of the landlord’s certification of breach of the settlement. The form would also include a date for automatic dismissal of the judgment if the landlord does not certify to such a breach.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The updated Consent to Enter Judgment (Tenant Remains) form (Attachment 5) will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 10: The Special Committee recommended that Rule 6:6-4 (“Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement”) should be amended to clarify that a settlement agreement that provides for entry of judgment for possession against an unrepresented, residential tenant must be written, signed by the parties, and reviewed and approved by the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation as modified to permit placing the agreement on the record in lieu of signature. The Court in its July 1, 2021 Order relaxed Rule 6:6-4 so as to implement the amendments shown in Attachment 6.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">TRIAL AND JUDGMENT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 11: The Special Committee recommended that after the conclusion of the moratorium on residential evictions and the resumption of all landlord tenant trials, trials should be conducted virtually whenever possible. Required settlement conferences should be scheduled on the trial date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 12: The Special Committee recommended that the Harris Announcement should be improved.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The updated Harris Announcement (Attachment 7) will be posted to the Judiciary’s public website and mailed to parties before the trial date. It will be translated and available in large (14 pt) font.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page6image953325488" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1085c054-99d9-4988-af52-dd33a331c946" width="162.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 4-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 13: The Special Committee recommended that the Judiciary should develop and promulgate a comprehensive “Landlord Tenant Procedures” document to advise parties of the new landlord tenant process.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The new Landlord Tenant Procedures (Attachment 8) will be posted to the Judiciary’s public website and served along with the complaint. It will be translated and available in large (14 pt) font.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 14: The Special Committee recommended that Rule 6:3-4 (“Summary Actions Between Landlord and Tenant”) should be amended to set forth a standard for the posting of a deposit where a tenant seeks an adjournment of the trial in order to raise and advance a habitability defense pursuant to Marini v. Ireland, 56 N.J. 130 (1970).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination. The Court rejects this recommendation and declines to amend Rule 6:3-4.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 15: The Special Committee recommended that Rule 6:3-4 (“Summary Actions Between Landlord and Tenant”) should be amended to set forth a standard for posting with the court a deposit of the unpaid base rent when the tenant seeks to obtain a trial adjournment for reasons other than to raise and advance a habitability defense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination. The Court rejects this recommendation and declines to amend Rule 6:3-4</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 16: The Special Committee recommended that new Judgment for Possession forms should be developed and tailored for use in the following situations: (1) at the conclusion of trial; (2) in instances of default judgment; (3) upon consent and (4) after breach of a settlement agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The new Judgment for Possession Forms will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website: Judgment for Possession (After Trial) is Attachment 9; Judgment for Possession (After Default) is Attachment 10; Judgment for</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image939079920" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c51f8b70-f6ca-4789-a459-0b504f6f74cc" width="93.839000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-5-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Possession (By Consent) is Attachment 11; Judgment for Possession (After Breach) is Attachment 12.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">POST-JUDGMENT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 17: The Special Committee recommended that a Request for Warrant of Removal form should be created.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The new Request for Warrant of Removal form (Attachment 13) will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Recommendation 18: The Special Committee recommended that Appendix XI-G (“Warrant of Removal”) should be amended for clarity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Determination: The Court approves this recommendation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Updated Warrant of Removal forms will be posted on the Judiciary’s public website: Warrant of Removal – Residential (Attachment 14); Warrant of Removal – Commercial (Attachment 15); Notice of Illegal Lockout (Attachment 16); and Execution of Warrant of Removal (Residential Only) (Attachment 17).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Court has entered an Order dated July 14, 2021 so as to establish all requirements of the new landlord tenant processes as set forth in these Administrative Determinations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">July 14, 2021</span></p></div></div><img alt="page8image939322176" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7ebe9443-901b-4054-b7a0-5feb369a3df7" width="121.320000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 6-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 9"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachments:</span></p><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">LandlordCaseInformationStatement(LCIS)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">TenantCaseInformationStatement(TCIS)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">SupremeCourt’sJune3,2021Order</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">CaseManagementConferenceInformationSheet</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">AppendixXI-V(“SettlementAgreement(TenantRemains)”)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rule 6:6-4 (“Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement, Residential Cases”)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">HarrisAnnouncement--AppendixXI-S(“LandlordTenantTrial Information”)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">LandlordTenantProcedures</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Judgment for Possession After Trial</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">10.Judgment for Possession by Default<br />11.Judgment for Possession by Consent<br />12.Judgment for Possession After Breach<br />13.Request for Warrant of Removal<br />14.Appendix XI-G(1) Residential Warrant of Removal 15.Appendix XI-G(2) Commercial Warrant of Removal 16.Appendix XI-G(3) Notice of Illegal Lockout<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 13pt;">17. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Appendix XI-G(4) Execution of Residential Warrant of Removal</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">7</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">7 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 10"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 1</span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Side 1</span></p><p><span style="color: #7a9ec2; font-family: Times; font-size: 8pt;">l ~ t </span><span style="color: #4b7fb2; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">• </span><span style="color: #7a9ec2; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">lmegri(y </span><span style="color: #648fb9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">F.iirlless </span><span style="color: #04509c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">· </span><span style="color: #7a9ec2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">QualityStrvice</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Caption<br />Name of Plaintiff/Landlord<br />Email Address<br />Attorney Name (if applicable) Email Address<br />Attorney/Plaintiff Mailing Address Name of Defendant(s)/Tenant(s) Email Address (if known)<br />Rental Property Address</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">New Jersey Judiciary Civil Practice Division</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord Case Information Statement </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14pt;">(LCIS)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image975458096" height="54.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c01d1c17-490e-4c8c-a704-85c9c806be63" width="1.440000" /> <img alt="page10image975458384" height="53.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8315b794-f162-41cd-939c-917d89cb70b0" width="39.599891" /> <img alt="page10image975458752" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/00c82e62-638a-48a0-a96a-e52d0a952aec" width="56.640000" /> <img alt="page10image975459168" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9e3c78fe-7f3c-49c5-a453-3590392996d8" width="246.480000" /> <img alt="page10image975459456" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/907d17f1-313a-4dfd-8146-42063b7c48e4" width="129.000000" /> <img alt="page10image975459744" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c784134a-163c-4acc-964c-9301ff06cad0" width="102.360000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; 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font-size: 8pt;">Municipal Code (*)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">No </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Holdover Cause of Action</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">(select from list on side 2)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">The information provided on this form cannot be introduced into evidence</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Type of Tenancy (select only one) Cause of Action (select all that apply)<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Residential </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Commercial </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Non-Payment </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Other (Holdover/For Cause)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Select all that apply to the rental property: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">SubsidizedHousing.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image975534704" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/de5ca4f9-6fff-43b4-915f-bfdcd4d07367" width="74.759000" /> <img alt="page10image975534992" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cb705b86-bf26-48c2-83d2-9d8d2599197a" width="98.160000" /> <img alt="page10image975535280" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0bcd18fd-3936-4e37-8629-6283938c3b27" width="98.280000" /> <img alt="page10image975535632" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7bf3bded-7128-4d9c-b842-bb891a8f813b" width="151.800000" /> <img alt="page10image975535920" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3faa803f-ab92-4b2d-a503-459f712182d3" width="111.960000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">Type: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 9pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Public Housing </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 9pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Section 8 Voucher </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 9pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Section 8 HAP Contract </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 9pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Other Subsidy Program<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Notice(s)thatarerequiredforHoldover,PublicHousingand/orSubsidizedHousingareattachedtothecomplaint. </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">RentalpropertyisnotacoveredpropertyundertheFederalCARESAct,15U.S.C.§9057(f)or9058(a).<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 8pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">Thetenancyissubjecttoamunicipalrentcontrolordinance.<br />The total number of months of unpaid rent is:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">The first month of unpaid rent was (please provide month and year):<br />The amount due and owing by the tenant in this case is: $</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">I certify that confidential personal identifiers have been redacted from documents now submitted to the court and will be redacted from all documents submitted in the future in accordance with Rule 1:38-7(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true to the best of my knowledge. I am aware that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Attorney/Plaintiff Signature <img alt="page10image975639696" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cb61f82c-3762-44ad-9a0e-c82979afc75d" width="233.640000" /> <img alt="page10image975640080" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f86362c5-f209-4fb2-a468-7b46130d95d8" width="214.200000" />Print Attorney/Plaintiff Name Date </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 7pt;">S</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Municipality Codes can be found at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/forms/11343_municodes.pdf</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image975653936" height="0.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1b7999f1-b822-4fac-9f7c-9c5da9986708" width="67.440000" /> <img alt="page10image975654224" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8bd8ea9b-6775-4ecc-a1a3-45c50906de27" width="85.560000" /> <img alt="page10image975654512" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6939ee5e-2002-4c4e-84f0-89d7c2d35e7b" width="85.560000" /> <img alt="page10image975654800" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5f47c123-53c2-4ca8-b633-2cf95bcf9c21" width="85.560000" /> <img alt="page10image975655088" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d159f726-2477-4357-8d0d-ac3d5c379427" width="313.560000" /> <img alt="page10image975655376" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/326d7b68-5a79-4f4b-93c7-f099c187c1ed" width="84.480000" /><img alt="page10image975655664" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/92af7871-ebcf-4b2d-ab9b-7056b63e0fff" width="125.280000" /> <img alt="page10image975655952" height="64.080000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/70b2010d-7580-42e7-9db7-fafbe6fc10c9" width="1.440000" /> <img alt="page10image975656240" height="64.080000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b63e4936-6cdc-4c33-a7c8-e972c8d75888" width="1.440000" /> <img alt="page10image975656528" height="0.959000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1aa1e076-2d50-443c-8c97-f196dc7f3858" width="89.040000" /> <img alt="page10image975487056" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/26c16c33-9969-415c-b7d9-7ce2011a191b" width="233.640000" /> <img alt="page10image975656720" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/304a9583-1958-462f-950c-facff8d18ea3" width="213.720000" /><img alt="page10image975656912" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/93ed4335-239d-432e-bff6-2edd0f68eb1a" width="88.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 8 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 11"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Side 2</span></p><p><span style="color: #749bc1; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">lndependeoc@ </span><span style="color: #5084b6; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">·l</span><span style="color: #749bc1; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">ntegrity f.JirAf'Ss </span><span style="color: #5084b6; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">• </span><span style="color: #749bc1; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">QwlityS<!'rvic@</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 16pt;">Landlord<br />Case Information Statement </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14pt;">(LCIS)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page11image975894416" height="53.968919" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a4a18508-9ce0-4fc9-84e9-cb5105bfb60c" width="39.599925" /> <img alt="page11image975894848" height="54.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6fe14ad6-e006-4f4f-a7ec-f14b4b1d1f68" width="0.959000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Holdover Causes of Action </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">(Enter number(s) in appropriate space on side 1.) </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">Residential Tenancy</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">1 Disorderly Tenant</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">2 Willful or Gross Negligent Damage to Premises</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">3 Violation of Rules and Regulations</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">4 Violation of the Lease Covenants</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">5 Violation of the Lease Covenants Under the Control of a Public Housing Authority or Redevelopment Agency</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">6 Failure to Pay Rent After Increase</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">7 Demolish/Board Up Premises</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">8 Permanently Retiring Residential Building/Mobile Home Park from Residential Use</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">9 Reasonable Changes to Lease at End of Lease Term that Tenant Refuses to Accept</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">10 Habitual Late Payment of Rent</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">11 Converting Property to Condominium or Cooperative Ownership</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">12 Personal Occupancy by Owner or Purchaser of Unit (property converted to condo/cooperative or fee simple ownership)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">13 Personal Occupancy by Owner or Purchaser of Unit (owner of a building with 3 or fewer condo/cooperative units.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">14 Personal Occupancy by Owner or Purchaser of Unit (building with 3 or fewer residential units)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">15 Rental is Conditioned on Tenant’s Employment by Landlord</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">16 Convicted or Pleaded Guilty to Offenses under the 1987 Comprehensive Drug Reform Act, or Harbors such Person</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">17 Convicted or Pleaded Guilty to Assault/Threats against Landlord, Landlord’s Family or Employee, or Harbors such Person</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">18 Tenant or Tenant Harbors such Person previously found Liable in a Civil Action for Certain Criminal Acts on the Rental Premises</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">19 Tenant or Tenant Harbors Such Person who pleaded or was convicted of theft of property from the Landlord, the Rental Premises, or Other Tenants</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">20 Tenant or Tenant Harbors such Person previously found Liable in a Civil Action for Human Trafficking on the Rental Premises</span></p></li></ol></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(b) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(c) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(d) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(e) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(e)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(f) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(g) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(h) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(i) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(j) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(k) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(l)(1)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(l)(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(l)(3) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(m) N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(n)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(o)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(p)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(q)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(r) N.J.S.A. 30:11A-1 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">et.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">seq.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53 N.J.S.A. 33:1-54</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol start="21" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">21 Residents at Residential Health Care Facilities (non-payment or holdover)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">22 Tenant Stays after Expiration of Lease Term</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">23 Tenant Disorderly as to Destroy Peace and Quiet</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">24 Tenant Willfully Destroys, Damages or Injures the Premises</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">25 Tenant Constantly Violates Landlord’s Written Rules and Regulations</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">26 Tenant Breaches/Violates any Agreement in Lease that Provides for Right of Reentry</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">27 Violation of Alcoholic Beverages Laws by Commercial Tenant</span></p></li></ol></div></div><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: black; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0pt 0.001pt 0.001pt 0pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">Commercial Tenancy; Owner-Occupied Premises with Two or Less Residential Units; Rental Unit Held in Trust</span></p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: black; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid; border-width: 0.001pt 0.001pt 0pt 0pt;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">on behalf of Immediate Family Member Who Permanently Occupies the Unit not Developmentally Disabled</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="page11image987782112" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e58afa41-514d-4e5c-a0e8-9653565c4bfd" width="412.560000" /> <img alt="page11image987782400" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1c55decc-fafe-4a1e-9365-67676867f31a" width="104.400000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 9 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 12"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 2</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTICE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">: This is a public document, which means the document as submitted will be available to the public upon request. Therefore, do not enter personal identifiers on it, such as Social Security number, driver’s license number, vehicle plate number, insurance policy number, active financial account number, active credit card number or military status.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Note: The Judiciary website contains a list of online resources with information related to defending your case, access to legal representation, and available rental resources. You should review this information and obtain legal counsel if possible.</span></p></div></div><div class="section"><img alt="page12image988071440" height="53.999404" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a15ec6c9-c7aa-44df-80c2-c29dec00acfb" width="39.599918" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #6c96be; font-family: Times; font-size: 5pt;">New JerseyCouru</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">New Jersey Judiciary Civil Practice Division</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Tenant Case Information Statement </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14pt;">(TCIS)</span></p></div></div></div><img alt="page12image988084608" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dc516269-272c-4da0-84e3-adb7b596c870" width="304.560000" /> <img alt="page12image988084896" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2d7ab1c2-9de8-4c68-8733-1235c44cccd6" width="129.000000" /> <img alt="page12image988085184" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b5020e6d-40c1-4efd-9cb5-39287151e97f" width="102.360000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Caption<br />Name of Defendant(s)/Tenant(s) Daytime Phone Number(s) of Tenant(s) Attorney Name and Firm (if applicable) Attorney/Defendant Mailing Address Rental Property Address</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">County</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Email Address(es)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Docket Number</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Email Address<br />Attorney Daytime Telephone Number</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 8pt;">Amount of Monthly Base Rent </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">$</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">No </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">No</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">No </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">No</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image988124400" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5ff2fa15-dee8-4e42-9a35-b2e9b9332333" width="304.560000" /> <img alt="page12image988124688" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0293dfaf-de05-431f-9e5e-f7b874d15997" width="129.960000" /> <img alt="page12image988124976" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/188d6388-5477-44e2-a76b-d183abe3cc77" width="103.320000" /><img alt="page12image988125392" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bfc71161-a4d6-4833-ac10-effe13a92b71" width="264.119000" /> <img alt="page12image988125680" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ccedc520-ab6b-42d3-a1c3-a21da326af50" width="274.199000" /><img alt="page12image988125968" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/906c8cfb-cbc1-40be-a184-2508f70bcafd" width="263.880000" /> <img alt="page12image988126256" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/13160006-e3b7-436c-84e8-d16c60770db7" width="116.280000" /> <img alt="page12image988126544" height="0.960000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b7a8d8ea-7c2c-4331-9851-c7983d35b252" width="156.720000" /><img alt="page12image988126832" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d9b7dcdb-b788-4de4-9b15-e5d8dfb1d104" width="380.880000" /> <img alt="page12image988127120" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/31af40cd-f614-44aa-92c2-5320d09bc9f4" width="156.960000" /><img alt="page12image988127408" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d42e3d1d-dea3-417b-9d27-58bb97e33a36" width="380.880000" /> <img alt="page12image988127952" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b8481d24-d3f2-43b5-a3c2-b7dda2944cb5" width="30.960000" /> <img alt="page12image988128144" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/03e30e8c-5a96-4a27-946d-be8f43ef811c" width="126.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">The information provided on this form cannot be introduced into evidence</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Have you applied (or has the landlord applied on your behalf) for any emergency rental assistance from any federal, state, or local program related to COVID-19?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Have you asked the landlord to apply any or all of your security deposit toward rent?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Select the statement that best describes your situation:<br />The amount of rent my landlord demands in the complaint is not correct.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">The government helps pay my rent, but the amount that the landlord says I owe is the government’s portion.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image988193152" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4d2eb2dd-4df9-4f90-980d-172d0da2f677" width="399.119000" /> <img alt="page12image988193440" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dff15f9f-f3b0-4929-bba3-239d10708dda" width="71.519000" /> <img alt="page12image988193728" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2c222e70-1f62-4d6d-aebe-801e5b59ca78" width="67.199000" /><img alt="page12image988194016" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3c34e6ab-75dc-4d46-a4f4-d6c8a939f078" width="399.119000" /> <img alt="page12image988194304" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2f860164-4968-4cd6-9964-c13fcf9b2639" width="71.519000" /> <img alt="page12image988195008" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/86574a47-c7f4-4d20-a200-17dc08e79a65" width="67.199000" /><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Do you have a disagreement with this landlord about the condition of the property or another issue? Common defenses are posted on the Judiciary’s website: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/selfhelp_landlordtenant.html#common</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">.</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 10pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">No</span></p></div></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Additional information for the court about this case or my disagreement with the landlord </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">(attach additional pages if necessary)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image988238336" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7aaa42d2-7e6d-4213-9004-fc9c542880a2" width="528.719000" /><img alt="page12image988238624" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/489b5e8c-a759-41b5-8780-8aec1bd23778" width="528.719000" /><img alt="page12image988238912" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7a57c450-aa5a-468b-86e2-68feed0d93ef" width="528.719000" /><img alt="page12image988239200" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6cda031a-ad6c-445e-b780-911154b83f44" width="528.719000" /><img alt="page12image988239488" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7a979ccd-11c8-4b1f-9788-ae251b0d830a" width="528.719000" /><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">I certify that confidential personal identifiers have been redacted from documents now submitted to the court and will be redacted from all documents submitted in the future in accordance with Rule 1:38-7(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;">I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true to the best of my knowledge. I am aware that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment.</span></p></div></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 9pt;">Attorney/Defendant Signature Print Attorney/Defendant Name Date</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image988294528" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/56806a0e-3c43-4de8-bf31-ab6ad31a0774" width="234.120000" /> <img alt="page12image988294816" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7773a3b5-dbd6-4a30-bb2a-1e213ac6ded4" width="213.480000" /> <img alt="page12image988295104" height="1.440000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/adfa48be-1436-4170-890f-bd03ef0a4ba8" width="88.320000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 10 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 13"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 3</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTICE TO THE BAR</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">L</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ANDLORD </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">T</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ENANT </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">– E</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">STABLISHMENT OF </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">S</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">TATEWIDE </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">L</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ANDLORD </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">T</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ENANT </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">L</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">EGAL </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">S</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">PECIALIST </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">P</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">ROGRAM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Supreme Court has authorized the establishment of a statewide Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist program, as recommended by the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant (“Special Committee”). This new program will support the review and administrative processing of landlord tenant actions, including the more than 55,500 pending eviction cases and 194,000 cases expected to be filed after the expiration of the moratorium on residential evictions. The Court’s June 3, 2021 Order is attached.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The remainder of the recommendations of the Special Committee – and the public comments and oral testimony on those recommendations – continue to be under consideration by the Court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Questions about landlord tenant actions should be directed to the Civil Practice Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts at (609) 815-2900 x54900. Questions about recruitment for landlord tenant legal specialist positions should be directed to the Human Resources Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts at (609) 815-2900 option 5.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page13image988518896" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f00bf9a7-9fe2-4e85-bb40-de46c50127a8" width="382.320000" /> <img alt="page13image988519184" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4e813b9e-27c5-4e38-a2ca-c61b6197d85b" width="223.560000" /> <img alt="page13image988519472" height="42.984739" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ba7e8c9f-6e46-4dc8-871a-f065e9d0973e" width="61.010989" /> <img alt="page13image988519824" height="32.964000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dbc5c7a6-772c-494b-9ba0-cf119649c421" width="72.051020" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">____________________________________ Hon. Glenn A. Grant, J.A.D.<br />Acting Administrative Director of the Courts</span></p></div></div><img alt="page13image988532432" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2fb07835-6c16-43d6-852e-10c10b5c3144" width="252.120000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Dated: June 4, 2021</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 11 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 14"><img alt="page14image939379792" height="792.180000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0acf1e73-9b15-4308-b1c2-3b47c7d5de0d" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">NJ. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Const. (1947), Art. VI, sec. 2, par. 3, that effective immediately and until further order, the provisions ofParts IV and VI of the Rules ofCourt, and any other applicable rules, are relaxed and supplemented so as to authorize the establishment of a statewide Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist program in furtherance ofthe review and administrative processing oflandlord tenant actions in the Superior Court, Civil Division, Special Civil Part, as further described below.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Program Administration</span></p><ol><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist program will operate in accordance with all Supreme Court Orders and subject to guidance provided by the Administrative Director of the Courts.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The qualifications and compensation for Landlord Tenant Legal Specialists will be established by the Administrative Director of the Courts, subject to the approval ofthe Supreme Court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist program will be administered at the vicinage level under the authority ofthe Assignment Judge.</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Assignment Judge will appoint the Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist(s) for the vicinage using the regular recruitment and appointment process for vicinage staff.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Civil Division Manager, or designee, will supervise the vicinage's Landlord Tenant Legal Specialist(s).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1</span></p></li></ol></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 12 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 15"><img alt="page15image1004610544" height="792.180000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b55b65c8-0e4e-4b6e-9339-cfb3a2fe32b8" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Jurisdiction; Duties and Responsibilities</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">4. TheLandlordTenantLegalSpecialistswillbeauthorizedtoperformnon- judicial administrative functions so as to advance due process and procedural fairness. Those duties will include but are not limited to the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">following:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To review landlord tenant pleadings and case-related information</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for the purpose ofdetermining compliance with legal requirements, including the provisions of federal and state statutes, Court Rules, and federal and state Executive Orders;</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To conduct case management conferences for the purpose of collecting and confirming information, including as to the claims and defenses of the parties, with this information to be included in the case file and accessible to the parties and the court;</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">T o conduct settlement conferences for the purposes o f ( </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">1) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">assisting the parties in identifying any options for a resolution without trial; (2) facilitating resolution ofthe matter; and (3) memorializing in written form and recorded verbatim on the record any settlement reached by the parties, which settlement may be subject to review by the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In any post-judgment applications, to conduct conferences as necessary for the purpose of collecting and confirming information, and facilitating resolution of the applications; and</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In all matters, to supplement the case file and share with the court information provided by the parties, except for any information provided during mediations or settlement conferences.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 13 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 16"><div class="section"><img alt="page16image1141555680" height="792.120000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/202fe440-dc40-41a1-a8fe-f952ea9c62b6" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">The provisions </span><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">this order will remain in effect pending further court order. For the Court,</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Dated: June 3, 2021</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">3</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 14 -</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #4c60cf; font-family: HiddenHorzOCR; font-size: 47pt;">~ </span><span style="color: #4c60cf; font-family: Times; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: 700;">7---=n~9-</span><span style="color: #4c60cf; font-family: Times; font-size: 33pt;">---- </span><span style="color: #1a191c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Chief Justice</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 17"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 4</span></p></div></div><div class="section"><img alt="page17image1016503488" height="53.973000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8da4ffb4-2434-4586-85e9-b3c23236eefb" width="40.299000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #6e97c0; font-family: Times; font-size: 5pt;">New Jersey </span><span style="color: #6e97c0; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">Couns</span></p><p><span style="color: #7dbdb0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">~ </span><span style="color: #5db09e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">- </span><span style="color: #7dbdb0; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">ln_!eg~ </span><span style="color: #5db09e; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">fa</span><span style="color: #7dbdb0; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">irness </span><span style="color: #048d6e; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">· </span><span style="color: #7dbdb0; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">Qual</span><span style="color: #5db09e; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">,</span><span style="color: #7dbdb0; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">tySerwc~</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">New Jersey Judiciary Civil Practice Division</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">L/T Case Management Conference Information Sheet</span></p></div></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Date<br />Case Caption</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Plaintiff Attorney Factual Background</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Documents</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Lease Registration Notices, if required</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Monthly Base Rent: $ Late Fees: $ Lease Term:<br />Claimed Total Due (Landlord): $</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Residential Defendant(s) Attorney</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewed </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewed </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Additional Rent: Penalties: Attorney Fees: (Tenant):</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Commercial LT -</span></p></div></div><img alt="page17image1016556272" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/65700f8e-1f2d-4bfb-be42-7527eb4f630d" width="69.961000" /> <img alt="page17image1016556560" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/53378904-11d1-4cf0-9b11-f88d2fb2b9b5" width="313.200000" /> <img alt="page17image1016556848" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/27449496-810f-400f-be99-6689ab7ba3d6" width="86.640000" /> <img alt="page17image1016557136" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/850bbb3e-3ed3-4e72-a345-c9386c5842c0" width="165.120000" /><img alt="page17image1016557424" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/99efab29-ec88-414c-ba59-645de49be1c5" width="165.000000" /> <img alt="page17image1016557712" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1366880e-43ff-4fed-ba3d-b21281d0ab6f" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016558128" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/977cfe37-75ac-449d-ac18-86926503a963" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016558416" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7889d7a2-8d10-4ae3-a706-dd56135b7e6b" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016558704" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7ea5b943-56ee-489c-8d5e-3d780d5ea949" width="534.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Filed </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Filed </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Filed</span></p></div></div><img alt="page17image1016562608" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5b059be1-1525-406d-9bc3-896c3eefc40e" width="48.721000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">$ $ $ $</span></p></div></div><img alt="page17image1016564864" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f3f26117-6dfa-40e8-bcd7-b855f85fde6d" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016565152" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8fad87f2-36d6-44a9-9f68-c5d4149b3508" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016565696" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/effdf952-5fb4-4eb7-8b94-be32a23d3acf" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016565888" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e6666881-4129-4f4c-a412-ead94c619dfd" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016566176" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a70e7391-5b0b-41ae-b084-6177f77d0c96" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016566464" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/016837b0-0f4a-42cc-8eac-23580f39215a" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016566752" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/91a55bd0-0a61-4f5a-84ea-b582b7808b4b" width="69.960000" /> <img alt="page17image1016567040" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fd1e0a82-92bf-4e1c-88e2-658ba7e50d97" width="69.960000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant has made a request to apply the security deposit toward rent under EO 128</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Rental Assistance Programs</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Plaintiff/Landlordhasappliedforandreceivedtemporary emergency rental assistance funding pursuant to any private, federal, state, or local </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">COVID-19 related </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Plaintiff/Landlordhasappliedforandreceivedtemporary emergency rental assistance funding pursuant to any private, federal, state, or local </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">non-COVID-19 related </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">program</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Parties Referred to</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Defenses</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant has stated the following:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">No </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Status</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Applied</span></p></div></div><img alt="page17image1016626560" height="1.200000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0368967a-48ff-44e4-98da-f42d2f63153e" width="40.320000" /> <img alt="page17image1016626848" height="1.200000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4897db55-e8d7-4336-8853-e862997bf385" width="33.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Landlord </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Landlord </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">rental assistance program.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page17image1016634704" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/385d03d3-8f5b-4c63-81e8-a91581a5d09b" width="82.320000" /> <img alt="page17image1016634992" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/66881cd1-802c-4f01-a27c-44188a17dd94" width="82.320000" /> <img alt="page17image1016635280" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/897db836-2a46-4c3e-888d-6bfd266fea4c" width="253.800000" /><img alt="page17image1016635568" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3002d99b-58ab-4ef0-89df-01e7601b22da" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016635856" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/aeff2cef-a591-4a09-9fd2-cf1330c68c32" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016636560" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ffa93fa6-39c7-4327-aee1-55b931dedfad" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page17image1016636752" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7eccfd5e-2e18-4d59-a961-d7645562cbd2" width="534.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -15pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -15pt;">15</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -15pt;">-</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 3</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 18"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Based upon my review of the file and discussion with the parties, the tenant has raised the following defenses(s):</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Property is not Habitable or Safe (Breach of the Implied Covenant of Habitability)<br /></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">The following describes what tenant alleges is wrong with the rental property (state what the alleged defect(s) are, impact on tenant safety and when tenant asked the landlord to make repairs):</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord is Retaliating Against Tenant (Reprisal or Retaliation (N.J.S.A. 2A:42-10.10)) because:</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Waiver </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">- Landlord is trying to enforce a lease provision even though landlord has known tenant was not in compliance. This includes acceptance by landlord of rent by tenant after effective date of Notice to Quit or where Landlord accepted lower rent over many months than is now claimed due and so has waived the right to collect higher rent.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Rent control ordinance</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">landlord is charging more than rent control allows</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">landlord is seeking fees, (attorney’s fees or late fees), that would increase rent above what rent control allows</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Rent increase is improper under governing rent control ordinance in (municipality)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord Failed to Properly Register the Rental Property </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">- Landlord has failed to satisfy their</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">registration requirements for this rental property per N.J.S.A. 46:8-33.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Tenant Does Not Owe the Amount Landlord Claims Is Due </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">– Tenant states that:</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Base rent is incorrect and should be $</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Arrears are incorrect and should be $</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Attorney’s fees or late fees are not due or are incorrect and should be $</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">The amount claimed due is the portion to be paid by a subsidy program and not by the tenant, who has paid the correct portion.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant did not receive proper notice under the Rent Security Deposit Act, N.J.S.A. 46:8-19, and is therefore entitled to apply the security deposit of $ <img alt="page18image1005183264" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f1b58301-b77b-4b15-9ac5-839c9d73cdc6" width="64.201000" />, plus 7% annual interest of<br />$ <img alt="page18image1005187184" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f5a30902-5568-4059-954f-5491d44502ca" width="64.200000" />to cover rent arrears.</span></p></li></ul></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Illegal Occupancy<br /></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Tenant states that occupancy is illegal. (N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(g)(3), -61.1g, -61.1h.) Tenant claims that</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">landlord may not collect rent and must provide relocation assistance equal to six months’ rent before an eviction can proceed. Tenant bases this statement on the following:</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">Other</span></p></li></ul></div></div><img alt="page18image1005224208" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7afd26e1-c3d4-4dc7-8b76-ee03c9d9051c" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005224496" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fe39e1e8-4ad2-4b8f-8ae0-0b4f0fd438b8" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005224784" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ae593403-d564-4120-9a9b-7e59bfd865da" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005225072" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7e475cc5-e257-4933-a352-a4320f9d31a1" width="503.280000" /> <img alt="page18image1005225360" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ce77bea9-dc78-4cff-aacf-706c02970c32" width="198.720000" /><img alt="page18image1005225648" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/03cb2a20-1119-411b-80ee-614e8bda1773" width="64.080000" /> <img alt="page18image1005225936" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c0e1d4db-e93c-4b90-bf08-124f0280f366" width="64.080000" /> <img alt="page18image1005226224" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1958617c-fbe5-4f80-bf0f-fb3c7042a89b" width="64.080000" /> <img alt="page18image1005226640" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/daa90edc-a84d-4b22-b2c5-ad600e821093" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005226928" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/52fc6e86-662d-47a8-80f3-d3d794aaa39f" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005227216" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/06a46c6e-41e6-4d5f-8f39-c92614d01ab5" width="503.280000" /><img alt="page18image1005227504" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/97ed9aa3-3daa-4ff4-bc58-3414b0906340" width="503.280000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -15pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -17pt;">16</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -15pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 3</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 19"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Based upon my review of the file and discussion with the parties, the landlord has asserted the following response to defenses (narrative):</span></p></div></div><img alt="page19image1004868560" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e12c86fd-3b3e-4054-8fcb-623e9f4edf5d" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page19image1004868848" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f7314043-974c-436f-8e85-fe841e160e09" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page19image1004869136" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a2367d3e-b878-4dea-9795-ad223ce96414" width="534.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Witnesses</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">For Plaintiff: For Defendant: Estimated time for trial:<br />Parties requested referral to settlement conference prior to trial</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Yes</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 12pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">No</span></p></div></div><img alt="page19image1005345344" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d7616ddd-c30e-45d0-baac-68108888548c" width="164.880000" /> <img alt="page19image1005345632" height="0.841000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3798f50d-80e6-44a8-8551-3eccfc30b141" width="165.001000" /> <img alt="page19image1005345920" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f6046e3a-98c5-4293-91e6-62b5ca2bcb5b" width="369.840000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Interpreter needed?<br />Accommodation for a disability? Mattercanproceedvirtually:<br />Other items related to remote proceedings:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">No </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">No</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Indicate language: Requested accommodation:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Yes</span></p></div></div><img alt="page19image1005369024" height="0.840000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a57da07d-1fc9-4079-a68f-a5f2aa41ecb1" width="165.001000" /> <img alt="page19image1005369312" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/99b1bcbe-a148-4554-8955-cbb7c1f53029" width="139.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">Yes </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 11pt;">☐</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt;">No</span></p></div></div><img alt="page19image1005371200" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/246862dc-4239-420f-b9f8-39c4d5c4dbeb" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page19image1005371488" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a0f7dfba-9aa3-4523-9313-581785e2289d" width="534.240000" /><img alt="page19image1005371776" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/243c47e9-03f0-4b33-ae9c-46918c075674" width="534.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 2pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">17</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 2pt;">-</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 3 of 3</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 20"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 5</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">The tenant and landlord hereby agree that:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-V<br />Settlement Agreement (Tenant Remains)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page20image953564480" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2e4e7208-36cb-4743-83cc-11fb5b53de87" width="244.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Landlord-Tenant Division</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket Number LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Settlement Agreement (Tenant to Stay in Premises)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page20image953584096" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6f0a8d4a-5cc0-4dc3-a773-b96506ebb57b" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page20image953584384" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/189c9772-8ab5-4c50-95ee-b4450b060efe" width="111.000000" /> <img alt="page20image953584672" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4e2b4f76-b74e-43e5-a504-b88ff218644d" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page20image953584960" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2d4193ef-4e08-4909-8dc1-779d0986280a" width="143.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Select one:<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">To the immediate entry of a Judgment for Possession</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The parties understand that a</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warrant of Removal will not be issued, and an eviction will not take place at this time. However, if the tenant breaches this agreement, the landlord may file a certification of breach with the court, on notice to the tenant. The Court may then issue a Warrant of Removal which starts the eviction process.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OR</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">No Judgment for Possession is entered. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The parties understand that if the tenant breaches this agreement, the landlord may file a certification of breach with the court, on notice to the Tenant. The court may then enter a Judgment for Possession and a Warrant of Removal may issue.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tenant shall pay to the landlord $ , which the tenant admits is now due and owing. The tenant shall pay this amount as follows:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 11pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">$ immediately, which the landlord admits receiving; and</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 11pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">$ each month until all the back rent due under this agreement is paid, which is no later than <img alt="page20image953696976" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/84218230-94a9-490f-b72b-96f3c5831513" width="80.401000" />.</span></p></li></ol></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tenant is also required to continue to pay $ each month as required by the rental agreement, during the duration of the payment plan set forth in paragraph 2.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All payments made by the tenant, as set forth in paragraph 2, shall first be applied by the landlord to the tenant(s)’ monthly rental obligation as required under the rental agreement and then shall be applied to pay the balance of the back rent as stated in paragraph 2. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant fails to make any payment that is required in paragraph 2 of this agreement, the tenant may be evicted as permitted by law after the service of the Warrant of Removal.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This agreement shall end when the tenant has paid the full amount of back rent as stated in paragraph 2. Once paid in full, the judgment, if any, shall be vacated and the complaint shall</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021, CN 10514</span></p></div></div><img alt="page20image953791824" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ec4d6f26-c985-4639-880c-aed849cc6b4a" width="97.681000" /> <img alt="page20image953792112" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1eeffdf1-ca33-4487-b2ea-648d65129cc0" width="80.280000" /> <img alt="page20image953792400" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c28774d8-fa6d-427b-ab2d-a87c09ba61d4" width="80.280000" /> <img alt="page20image953792688" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1c8a9620-419c-476c-b992-baf0561c6ef0" width="80.400000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 18 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 21"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">be dismissed. The Landlord shall advise the Office of the Special Civil Part in writing within 30 days of any alleged breach by the tenant. If the landlord does not notify the court, the case shall be dismissed automatically [</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">insert date</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">].</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Landlord’s Attorney Tenant’s Attorney Landlord Tenant</span></p></div></div><img alt="page21image953953264" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4fb57a0c-5a39-4df3-a1ec-7ba1ffebcf57" width="108.000000" /> <img alt="page21image953953552" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cadbae07-24b9-4d8b-9705-7ae7d595e530" width="243.000000" /> <img alt="page21image953953840" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c9f8a289-dfa7-43b2-bd7f-9e7a11054812" width="243.000000" /><img alt="page21image953954128" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7ca1bba8-3a9a-4615-b8e8-7c2e25967652" width="243.000000" /> <img alt="page21image953954416" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/49ef6296-e6af-4b50-bd83-b4f4c62976e4" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">J.S.C.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page21image953956080" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1b658e64-d1cb-47c3-a5d5-d4f314fa9eff" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Note: The Certification by Landlord and the Certification of Landlord’s Attorney (if the Landlord has an attorney) are attached hereto.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021, CN 10514</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 19 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 22"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 6</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6:6-4. Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement, Residential Cases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Notwithstanding any consent by a tenant, no warrant of removal may be issued or executed unless in compliance with all provisions of law.]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(a) Entry by the Court. A stipulation of settlement or an agreement that provides for entry of a judgment for possession against an unrepresented tenant must be written, either signed by the parties or placed on the record in lieu of signature, and reviewed, approved and signed by a judge on the day of the court proceeding [;]. Additionally, [but] if it requires the unrepresented tenant to both pay rent and vacate the premises, the judge shall also review it in open court. It must also be accompanied by the affidavit of the landlord and the certification of the landlord's attorney required by R. 6:6-3(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(b) Entry by the Clerk. When the tenant is represented by an attorney and the attorney has signed the agreement, the clerk may enter judgment for possession upon receipt of the signed consent of the parties and the affidavit of the landlord and the certification of the landlord's attorney specified in R. 6:6-3(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Note: Adopted July 18, 2001 to be effective November 1, 2001; paragraph (a) amended July 31, 2020 to be effective September 1, 2020; caption amended, introductory sentence deleted, and paragraph (a) amended July 14, 2021 to be effective September 1, 2021.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page22image1046719472" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7bfdced5-81d0-4632-ab9d-a6770013daa9" width="366.120000" /> <img alt="page22image1046719760" height="0.360000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2772c299-e287-43cc-8395-f3ef860173f4" width="99.120000" /> <img alt="page22image1046720048" height="0.360000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d93e17a5-2c50-4843-bf55-472b2e486603" width="99.120000" /> <img alt="page22image1046720336" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/87f9b087-6275-49c2-8453-3be5bf76f6d0" width="138.720000" /><img alt="page22image1046720624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5f50b650-cb53-460a-b3ea-9a720b47b355" width="174.361000" /> <img alt="page22image1046720912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3226ea1c-6be1-45fd-8130-68e3ea6e5525" width="31.919000" /> <img alt="page22image1046721200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1a96f700-3762-467c-aa96-980e2277eadd" width="242.761000" /> <img alt="page22image1046721488" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a36da7ab-92a8-4724-9ff6-6455906a95a8" width="74.520000" /> <img alt="page22image1046721904" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/00b28d01-574c-4ef8-bf6b-a81664f780f9" width="78.600000" /> <img alt="page22image1046722192" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/02eec214-5623-44e5-ab6c-85098c5974c4" width="127.440000" /><img alt="page22image1046722480" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/99438b7a-5507-4181-b407-17ca3f0ae794" width="113.160000" /> <img alt="page22image1046722768" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1b2d4849-05c3-4b78-927b-0dde8ade7cbc" width="468.000000" /> <img alt="page22image1046723056" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1edbfdfa-32e9-4735-858e-db8dd9f24aab" width="157.920000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">20 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 23"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 7</span></p><p><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">New </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">J</span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">ersey </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">Co</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">u</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">rts </span><span style="color: #727272; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">www.n)cour1s </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">.</span><span style="color: #818282; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">9o•</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-S<br />New Jersey Judiciary Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord Tenant Trial Information</span></p></div></div><img alt="page23image1046840176" height="71.932000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7780bebf-5b69-4a9f-9a60-79ba81bc2d8e" width="53.199911" /> <img alt="page23image1046840480" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5b1edf58-719e-4016-825d-a2dde4960352" width="89.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 53pt;">.,</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 24pt;">ft</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">I</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">ndependence • Integrit</span><span style="color: #727272; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">y </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">Fairness </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">· </span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">Quality Service</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The following information is a </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">brief </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">overview of landlord tenant court procedures. Please read these instructions carefully. This information is not intended to take the place of legal advice, but it will provide you with a general understanding of the process. If a party needs an interpreter, they should contact the court by phone or email.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A landlord has filed a lawsuit against a tenant to regain possession of their property, meaning a landlord wants to evict (also known as “lockout”), a tenant. In order to evict a tenant, the landlord must first get a judgment for possession. Before that can happen, tenants have a right to a trial. If a trial occurs, a judge will decide whether a judgment for possession should be entered. A judgment for possession allows a landlord to request a warrant of removal from the court. If a judgment is entered, the court will provide a written document to the landlord and tenant that explains the basis for the court’s decision and what will happen next. The warrant of removal allows a Special Civil Part Officer to proceed with a tenant’s eviction from the property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Illegal Evictions: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A landlord cannot evict tenants from a rental property, only a Special Civil Part Officer can perform an eviction. In order to have a Special Civil Part Officer evict a tenant, a landlord must first get a judgment for possession and then a warrant of removal from the court. It is illegal for the landlord to force a tenant out by changing the locks, padlocking the doors, or shutting off gas, water or electricity. Landlords can only remove a tenant’s belongings after an eviction as permitted by the Abandoned Tenant Property Act N.J.S.A. 2A:18-72 (unless otherwise provided for in a non-residential lease).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their homes illegally should call police. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has released guidance on illegal lockouts and the role of law enforcement agencies in preventing them. More information is available at the following link:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcj/agguide/directives/ag-Directive-2021-2_Illegal_Evictions.pdf</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their rental property illegally can also file a civil complaint at the county courthouse. For more information on illegal evictions (lockouts) go to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">www.njcourts.gov</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Available Resources: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Court staff can give the parties a list of agencies that may be able to assist with rent, temporary shelter, or legal services. Information about rental assistance programs – including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic – is available online at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">www.njcourts.gov. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Information about legal resources also is posted online:</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/selfhelp_landlordtenant.html#tenants.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page23image1016862704" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fa2e3ed7-4d51-4c97-b8bd-6e2c400ffff4" width="461.281000" /> <img alt="page23image1016862992" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d38b7d1a-397c-4f85-b70f-703568ee9249" width="273.840000" /><img alt="page23image1016863408" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/baf71886-d13c-48db-a0fd-ccbf3c02fee1" width="502.800000" /> <img alt="page23image1016863696" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d2856c9b-601c-4935-996b-0caec6ab81b9" width="103.560000" /> <img alt="page23image1016863984" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/846aba2a-1557-42fd-bc24-925d62444013" width="107.040000" /><img alt="page23image1016864272" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d3fa1b7d-33fe-4186-ac42-d0476e914e93" width="402.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 21 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 1 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 24"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">1. Appearing on Your Trial Date</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Trials may be conducted virtually, by video, or in person if the parties are unable to participate virtually. On the scheduled trial date, a list of cases will be scheduled to be heard. If both the landlord and the tenant are present, the case will be marked READY for trial. If the tenant is not present, the case may be marked “DEFAULT.” If the landlord is not present or if both parties do not appear, the case may be “DISMISSED.” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You will have a chance to ask questions of court staff.</span></p><ol start="2"><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Settlements</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Settlement conferences will be offered before the trial. Those conferences generally will be conducted virtually (by video). Parties will have the opportunity to meet with court staff for these conferences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The parties should talk to each other to try to settle their case. Neutral court staff will help the parties try to settle their case. Parties are not required to settle their case and have the right to a trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You should settle only if you understand the terms of the agreement and they are acceptable to you. If you are a tenant and do not comply with the settlement agreement, you can be evicted. If the parties agree on a settlement, parties can complete a settlement agreement form which can be completed virtually or in person. A copy of any settlement agreement will be sent to the parties. You are not limited to the contents of the settlement forms. Note, any settlement involving an unrepresented residential tenant that seeks to enter a consent judgment for possession must be approved by the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Right to a Trial</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you are a tenant and you disagree with what your landlord claims, such as the amount of the rent that is owed, you have the right to explain your position, before and at trial.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Waiting for Trial</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you do not settle, a judge will hear your case. Most trials will be conducted virtually, by video. Parties can use courthouse technology rooms to participate, if necessary. In some cases, the trial may be conducted in person. The court expects to reach all cases on the scheduled trial date; however, if your case cannot be reached that day, you will have your case rescheduled and have to appear either virtually or in person another day. If you are a tenant and you request to adjourn (postpone) the trial date, the judge may first require you to deposit some or all of the rent due with the court. If a deposit is required, it can be paid in cash, money order or bank cashier’s check made payable to the Treasurer, State of New Jersey. If the rent is not deposited as directed, a default will be entered in favor of the landlord. That means the landlord will be able to take steps to have you evicted.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Non-Payment of Rent Cases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The following information applies in cases where a landlord claims the tenant owes rent:</span></p></li></ol></div></div><img alt="page24image1058291568" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a05ab91b-5c58-48cc-b807-7f7fca1459cb" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page24image1058291856" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8a152560-1d7d-44e7-92ff-8ed67e60dc95" width="93.000000" /><img alt="page24image1058292144" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/08664098-b46b-4a3e-a152-4b041a0aea61" width="421.200000" /> <img alt="page24image1058292432" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bd201aed-8393-4a54-bd80-e54f23cb5051" width="35.761000" /><img alt="page24image1058292720" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7238f6b0-e0cb-401f-bf50-90bd621f515f" width="308.759000" /> <img alt="page24image1058293072" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1ddc702b-cc21-438e-b11b-8d29d75bce5d" width="76.680000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 22 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 2 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 25"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Dismissal of Case Upon Payment or Deposit. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you are a tenant, the case against you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">will be dismissed if you pay all of the rent that is due plus court costs to the landlord or to the court on or before the date a judge enters a judgment for possession. If your case is tried remotely, the court will delay entry of the judgment until the following business day. Note: The tenant may still make payments after a judgment for possession is entered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Fees or Other Charges as Additional Rent. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attorney’s fees, late fees and/or other charges are only allowed if there is a lease that calls these items “additional rent.” Even if the lease does say that, the amount due as rent may be limited by rent control, or if there is public assistance, the rent may be limited by local, state, or federal law. For example, if a tenant receives Section 8 assistance, the landlord cannot include a late charge in the amount that the tenant owes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">6. HoldoverCases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If the eviction case is for a reason other than nonpayment of rent, the landlord should have served the tenant with written notice(s) before filing the complaint for eviction and attached these notice(s) to the complaint when filed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">7. Limitation on Court’s Powers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A judge cannot force the parties to settle. A settlement is entirely voluntary. For example, a tenant may want more time to pay rent owed or to pay in installments. Unless the landlord agrees to such terms, the court must enter a judgment for possession, which then allows the landlord to take steps to gain possession of the property and evict the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">8. EvictionProcedures/Steps<br />Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued at least three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/ Eviction</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to execute the warrant of removal by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page25image1064466992" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8a5ab605-5e94-48d6-acdd-6e9ef091e73e" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page25image1064467280" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6dbee6cf-fb0e-4055-9bfb-8df2dd68b7a6" width="177.720000" /><img alt="page25image1064467568" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4421aa02-dada-4671-abf4-e4374bf30f61" width="508.200000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 23 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 3 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 26"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A residential tenant cannot be evicted until the landlord follows the steps above. A residential tenant may not be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction. (See 9.B. Paying all Rent Due and Owing, below)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">9. Options After a Judgment for Possession<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (Step 1 above), a landlord</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement should be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (Step 4 above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.<br />A tenant can apply for relief to the court even after an eviction. To do so, a tenant must</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent; and/or</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under Rule 4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Court staff can provide tenants with the forms needed to ask for any of the above types of relief.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page26image1070770912" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b65b80e3-891a-4872-9bbd-9c8d3bdb106c" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page26image1070771200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8fb3f9f7-8863-40c0-ab6c-f1c08ac1116d" width="47.880000" /><img alt="page26image1070771488" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c241d48b-e9e9-4065-a824-3332ef79c0b8" width="175.080000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 24 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 4 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 27"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 8</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">New Jersey Judiciary Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord Tenant Procedures</span></p></div></div><img alt="page27image1145270880" height="71.931832" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/deef804d-f655-4af8-8875-62d890abf308" width="53.199911" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">-The following procedures apply in cases where a landlord is trying to evict (also known as “lockout”) a tenant. Please take the time to read this information and visit the Judiciary website at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">njcourts.gov </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">for more information about landlord tenant rules and procedures. Both landlords and tenants can ask questions of court staff at any point during the process, but court staff </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">cannot </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">provide legal advice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">1. Complaint filed and served</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The landlord must file a complaint, summons, and Landlord Case Information Statement (LCIS). Those documents will explain why the landlord is seeking to evict the tenant(s) and will be served on the tenant(s).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants must complete a Tenant Case Information Statement (TCIS). The TCIS will explain the tenant’s position. The tenant should file this with the court electronically (or by mail) at least five (5) days before the scheduled case management conference otherwise it will be required at the conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Court forms for both landlords and tenants are available on the njcourts.gov website on the Self-Help Page: https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/index.html.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">2. Mandatory Case Management Conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The court will schedule a case management conference either virtually (by video) or in person. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Both landlord and tenant must appear at the case management conference, and </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">can use Judiciary technology rooms to participate, if necessary. Contact the Special Civil Part Office at <img alt="page27image1145428128" height="0.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/273d5155-00de-4915-b825-3c96cd831939" width="78.000000" />, ext. <img alt="page27image1145429504" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cb9e3757-9ed3-46fa-9ec9-6b8be7ffc19c" width="34.799000" />to arrange for a room.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Both the Landlord and Tenant CIS forms must be received before the case management conference. At the conference, court staff will ask questions to gather information for the judge and both sides will be able to explain their positions. Court staff will then talk to both sides about trying to settle their case.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">3. Settlement Conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The landlord and tenant will be asked to talk to each other to try to settle their case. Neutral court staff will help both sides try to settle their case. If the case does not settle prior to trial, the court will schedule a settlement conference to take place on the day of trial. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Neither the landlord nor the tenant is required to settle their case and both have the right to a trial</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">4. Settlement Agreements.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If both landlord and tenant agree to settle their case, the court or court staff will review the terms of the settlement agreement. Some agreements will require the judge to review and approve the agreement and some will also require the landlord and tenant to testify about the terms of the agreement on the record in open court. All settlement agreements will be</span></p></div></div><img alt="page27image1145531936" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c9f37f5f-05da-40f2-9b71-3d799a32aa9b" width="69.720000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 25 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 5</span></p></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times; font-size: 7pt;">New </span><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Times; font-size: 7pt;">J</span><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times; font-size: 7pt;">ersey </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Times; font-size: 7pt;">Co</span><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Times; font-size: 7pt;">u</span><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">rrs </span><span style="color: #8b8b8b; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">www.nJto</span><span style="color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">~,</span><span style="color: #8b8b8b; font-family: Times; font-size: 4pt;">,,</span><span style="color: #ababab; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">.</span><span style="color: #8b8b8b; font-family: Times; font-size: 3pt;">gow</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #010101; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 53pt;">.,</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #010101; font-family: Times; font-size: 24pt;">ft</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">Independence· </span><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">Int</span><span style="color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">egr</span><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">i</span><span style="color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">ty </span><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">Fairne</span><span style="color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">ss </span><span style="color: #484848; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">· </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">Quality Service</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 28"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">written (or placed on the record), with a copy provided to the parties, and added to the court’s electronic file.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you settle your case, please note:</span></p><ul><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You should settle only if you agree with the terms. Both landlord and tenant must agree to the terms for a settlement.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Court staff can provide an agreement form which can be completed virtually (by video) or in person. If completed in person, the signed agreement should be provided to the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Court staff can also provide forms for any certification from the landlord and/or the landlord’s attorney.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The wording of the settlement form can be changed depending on the terms you have agreed upon.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Make sure that you understand the words in the settlement because if you are a tenant and agree to entry of a judgment for possession and do not comply with the terms of the settlement, you can be evicted.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: SymbolMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Any agreement that says a judgment for possession will or can be entered must be approved by a judge if a residential tenant does not have an attorney.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">5. Trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you are a tenant and you disagree with what your landlord claims, such as the amount of the rent that is owed, you have the right to explain your position at trial. Most trials will be conducted virtually, by video. Parties can use Judiciary technology rooms to participate, if necessary. In some cases, trial may be conducted in person. If the tenant does not appear, the case can be marked “DEFAULT.” This means the landlord can apply for a judgment against the tenant and the tenant can be evicted if the judgement is granted. If the landlord does not appear, the case can be “DISMISSED.” This means the case will not proceed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">6. Entry of Judgment for Possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">At the conclusion of a trial or where a tenant does not appear at trial and the landlord proves their case, the court will enter a judgment for possession. A judgment for possession is a written document that contains the result of the case and explains the basis for the court’s decision. The judgment for possession also explains the next steps in the process.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the rental property. This can happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “DEFAULT,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">7. Application for and Issuance of a Warrant of Removal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord can ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal allows the Special Civil Part Officer to proceed with the process of evicting a tenant from the property. The warrant</span></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 26 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 5</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 29"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">of removal cannot be issued less than three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><ol start="8"><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Service of the Warrant of Removal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Execution of the Warrant of Removal/Eviction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord can request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">execute the warrant of removal </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Landlords cannot evict tenants by themselves. Special Civil Part Officers are the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">only </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Illegal Evictions</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A landlord cannot evict tenants from a rental property; only a Special Civil Part Officer can perform an eviction. In order to have a Special Civil Part Officer evict a tenant, a landlord must first get a judgment for possession and then a warrant of removal from the court. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">It is illegal for the landlord to force a tenant out by changing the locks, padlocking the doors, by shutting off gas, water or electricity</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. Landlords can only remove a tenant’s belongings after an eviction as permitted by the Abandoned Tenant Property Act N.J.S.A. 2A:18-72 (unless otherwise provided for in a non-residential lease).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their homes illegally should call the police. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has released guidance on illegal lockouts and the role of law enforcement agencies in preventing them. More information is available at the following link: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcj/agguide/directives/ag-Directive-2021-2_Illegal_Evictions.pdf</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their rental property illegally can also file a civil complaint at the county courthouse. For more information on illegal evictions (lockouts) go to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">njcourts.gov</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Other Options After a Judgment for Possession is Entered:</span></p><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Agreement</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. After a judgment for possession has been entered, a landlord and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement can be filed with the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. By law, a residential tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction. The landlord must</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 27 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 3 of 5</span></p></div></div><img alt="page29image1058809712" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ecc69280-3947-47aa-b560-95b4e7dae260" width="502.800000" /> <img alt="page29image1058810000" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/82001e9b-4cda-49b6-bf4d-d361a1fb6e12" width="69.720000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 30"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">3. Asking the Court for Relief</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. A tenant can apply for relief to the court. To do so, a tenant must file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Anapplicationfororderlyremovalrequestinguptoseven(7)morecalendardaysto move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent; and/or</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Anapplicationforahardshipstay,whichdelaystheevictionbasedontheunavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under Rule 4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession. For more information visit the landlord tenant page at:</span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/selfhelp_landlordtenant.html#home</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Available Resources</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Housing and Rental Assistance. Court staff can give the parties a list of agencies that might be able to assist with rent, temporary shelter, or legal services. Information about rental assistance programs (including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic) is available online at</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/covid19_rentalassistance.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Information about legal resources also is available online at:</span></p><p><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/selfhelp_landlordtenant.html#tenants</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You can also contact the Legal Services of New Jersey hotline 1-888-576-5529.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Ombudsman in your county might be able to provide information regarding organizations and resources that may be available in your county: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/public/ombudsdir.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">LSNJ’s Tenants’ Rights Manual is available at: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.lsnjlaw.org/Pages/default.aspx<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 28 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 4 of 5</span></p></div></div><img alt="page30image1093870016" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9ce4aab5-f715-4474-8443-bc3de93e6875" width="394.080000" /> <img alt="page30image1093870304" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4283663e-42ad-4234-b035-b45040b3f5eb" width="363.480000" /><img alt="page30image1093870592" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d17f1d9e-95a7-4989-9cfc-7a006e0febb3" width="402.600000" /> <img alt="page30image1093870880" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ca77df94-84fa-4741-bcb6-65fcd38ba1dd" width="274.200000" /><img alt="page30image1093871232" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f1eef2a7-83a8-491c-b407-c7ddd90994b7" width="243.720000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 31"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you have additional questions or issues regarding the information above, please send an email to or call the Special Civil Part Office at <img alt="page31image1071519264" height="0.599000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/18aa942a-6619-4fd9-9fd0-897dd39533f6" width="78.000000" />, ext. . Please note that Judiciary staff cannot provide legal advice.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page31image1071527536" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ca68f66d-f3e7-4586-afb1-ddc864811348" width="157.320000" /> <img alt="page31image1071527824" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ea487e33-6ff8-42a4-b49b-460403510a85" width="34.799000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 29 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 5 of 5</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 32"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 9</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDER PREPARED BY THE COURT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division – Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Docket No. LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential<br />Civil Action</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Judgment for Possession After Trial</span></p></div></div><img alt="page32image1017058656" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8104b18f-1e86-4b1b-b63c-b89fd3c48416" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page32image1017058944" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/34e302db-196a-43e3-a68f-92466f93a408" width="111.000000" /> <img alt="page32image1017059232" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/79ccf985-35dc-4df4-a4ce-cc283cc18a12" width="139.440000" /> <img alt="page32image1017059520" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a25e765d-ac14-4c9d-b59e-9ecaed3e6ee1" width="234.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">This matter having been brought before the court by a complaint by the Plaintiff Landlord (enter landlord name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], in an action for possession of the premises for: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Non-payment of Rent </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Other (enter description) (statutory basis), against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) (enter tenant(s) name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Court having conducted a trial on the issues raised in the complaint and </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">defenses of </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Habitability </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Unregistered Rental Property </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Illegal Tenancy </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Abatement<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Federal CARES Act </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attorney Required by Landlord </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Notices Required/Deficient<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Payment of Rent Other (enter description) </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">None, raised by the tenant; and the Court having found that the defendant </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">has</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">/</span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">has not established the defense of: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Habitability </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Unregistered Rental Property </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Illegal Tenancy </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Abatement </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Federal CARES Act </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attorney Required by Landlord </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Notices Required/Deficient </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Payment of Rent<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Other (enter description) </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">None and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Landlord having produced and the Court having reviewed a copy of the lease and any required registration statement and found that the Landlord has proven a cause of action for possession on the basis of (enter description) and there </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">is/</span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">is not rent due and owing to the Landlord in the amount of $(amount) [optional: which is to be offset in the amount of $(amount) because defendant established the defense of (enter description)], and a judgment for possession should enter in this case;</span></p></div></div><img alt="page32image1105324464" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e248d03b-b309-497b-9f3d-92e544019bd7" width="121.320000" /> <img alt="page32image1105324752" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eb58abad-66cb-4c78-a342-fc06f36b4f6c" width="120.480000" /> <img alt="page32image1105325040" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/caa4aaad-4ed9-47d0-ba41-2f0922130fe3" width="102.960000" /> <img alt="page32image1105325456" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/55925772-149f-4c81-b588-44a09389da6b" width="123.719000" /> <img alt="page32image1105325744" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/23f1ff6b-f718-4277-92d1-9304abaf9e83" width="81.960000" /> <img alt="page32image1105326032" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f9899b68-803e-49e7-953b-a9028adddd0f" width="35.160000" /> <img alt="page32image1105326320" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7f320da3-c36e-47ff-ba41-5a85154e4206" width="103.080000" /><img alt="page32image1105326608" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b1d3d6eb-8cbf-4620-b2a2-505892ccdea0" width="103.080000" /> <img alt="page32image1105326896" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/45af5e63-b8d1-4101-a446-1013a1247cf4" width="103.080000" /> <img alt="page32image1105327184" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6016ab6c-51a0-4e43-af90-4b89cad4baf0" width="51.360000" /> <img alt="page32image1105327472" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/735cb350-926b-4574-9aa7-2b52af705cb3" width="51.359000" /> <img alt="page32image1105328016" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/702bada0-f21f-4dc1-932d-3f4983792fea" width="103.081000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 30 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 33"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is on this <img alt="page33image1058953184" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d09abe19-c174-4e2b-88d5-e793a97192d5" width="34.800000" />day of <img alt="page33image1058474416" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/03baa525-f573-4007-b387-af3ae9eb526d" width="73.319000" />, 20 , </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDERED THAT:<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">a Judgment for Possession is hereby </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">entered</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">/</span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">denied for the property at issue in the Complaint.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Judge Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves; Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or legal holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant does not voluntarily leave, the steps required for eviction are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued less than three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/Eviction. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to execute the warrant of removal by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- Adding the days above, a residential tenant cannot be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (see options below).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Other options After a Judgment for Possession has been entered are as follows:<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above), a landlord</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the</span></p></div></div><img alt="page33image1094242192" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/35cec602-ed28-46ff-889a-26091b16cbcd" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 31 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 34"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement may be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can apply for relief to the court. To do so, a tenant must file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 32 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 35"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 10</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDER PREPARED BY THE COURT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant<br />This matter having been brought by verified complaint by the Plaintiff Landlord (enter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">landlord name) in an action for possession of the premises for: </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Non-payment of Rent </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Other (enter description) (specify statutory basis), against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) (enter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">tenant(s) name) and the Defendant(s) Tenant(s) having been noticed of and having failed to appear on the date of trial or mandatory court event on (date) and the Plaintiff Landlord having submitted the appropriate proofs by way of a Landlord’s Certification, and a Certification by the Landlord’s Attorney (if any), as required by </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">R</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. 6:6-3(b), that a judgment for possession should be entered by default in this case; and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Landlord having shown that there </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">is</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">/</span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">is not rent due and owing to the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Landlord in the amount of $(amount) and a judgment for possession should enter in this case;</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ONTHIS <img alt="page35image1310927632" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b0ce1382-88ad-4469-979d-51e80edc57ce" width="34.800000" /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">dayof <img alt="page35image1310928720" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a6a1f17f-0b96-4162-aa58-1db8a98d3cb5" width="73.319000" />,20 ,<br />Default Judgment for Possession is hereby entered in favor of the Plaintiff Landlord for</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">the property at issue in the Complaint; and<br />A Warrant of Removal allowing the landlord to take possession of the property may be</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">issued after (system will calculate date).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves; Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or legal holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant does not voluntarily leave, the steps required for eviction are as follows:<br />Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division – Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Docket No. LT-</span></p></div></div><img alt="page35image1311027008" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5ef986cd-c3cc-498c-a3fb-44ec63315809" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page35image1311027296" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/446aaee7-d737-49d9-917e-c1d3f9f76d43" width="111.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential<br />Civil Action</span></p></div></div><img alt="page35image1311030960" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a5b27c5a-b8a1-4f8e-abea-5f71f5135666" width="139.440000" /> <img alt="page35image1311031248" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6b56ff62-03dd-4c63-b05a-fbeb438936d6" width="234.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Judgment for Possession by Default</span></p></div></div><img alt="page35image1311035920" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/af735093-d5ec-4096-8f6d-03f40fb72e70" width="32.520000" /> <img alt="page35image1311036336" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3680161d-216c-4e68-9940-3eb7cb5b35d1" width="85.320000" /> <img alt="page35image1311036624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/07ec21a4-035e-4f0d-93ab-790ec09c1ed6" width="103.080000" /> <img alt="page35image1311036912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9a05e71e-d35f-42cb-8378-979f328e5d5c" width="32.640000" /> <img alt="page35image1311037200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/24842e36-ffd9-4856-8105-a05ecea4c065" width="87.600000" /> <img alt="page35image1311037488" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cfa3400e-a4ee-4c63-b21c-79ebe665efee" width="32.639000" /> <img alt="page35image1311037776" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/198f0cab-c4e1-4fe4-8de0-0a9e130d4342" width="51.359000" /> <img alt="page35image1311038064" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/610cafda-8377-4a61-9e39-7763298a5fbd" width="153.600000" /><img alt="page35image1311038352" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/672c9266-6058-4bd7-9779-39ec374d6897" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 33 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 36"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued less than three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/Eviction. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">execute the warrant of removal </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- Adding the days above, a residential tenant cannot be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (see options below).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Other options after a Judgment for Possession has been entered are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above), a landlord and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement may be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can apply for relief to the court. To do so, a tenant must file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 34 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 37"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 35 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 38"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 11<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDER PREPARED BY THE COURT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division – Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Docket No. LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential<br />Civil Action</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Judgment for Possession by Consent</span></p></div></div><img alt="page38image1328690736" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c08c8d90-7119-4558-9314-0a360d8807d7" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page38image1328691024" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5aa7622a-73cd-4ff5-a0af-5cb18c34890c" width="111.000000" /> <img alt="page38image1328691312" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b00adc29-c103-41ec-b304-4fa4d586baab" width="139.440000" /> <img alt="page38image1328691600" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/90877f2c-9cb4-46f8-94cc-9c8c931496cd" width="234.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">This matter having come before the court by way of complaint filed by the Plaintiff Landlord (enter landlord name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], for entry of judgment for possession against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) (enter tenant(s) name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], based on a settlement agreement reached between the parties that a judgment for possession should be entered against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) in this case, and for other good cause having been shown;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is on this <img alt="page38image1328750176" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7dc87cff-4c2f-4435-a32e-5eb7fc0b0deb" width="34.800000" />day of <img alt="page38image1328751488" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/97522d3d-2365-449a-8f10-5fdc48e00b99" width="73.319000" />, 20 , </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDERED THAT:<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A Judgment for Possession is hereby entered for the property at issue in the Complaint.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Judge Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves; Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or legal holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant does not voluntarily leave, the steps required for eviction are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued less than three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page38image1328888240" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/561e1f2c-c8d7-4bf0-ba5e-d408e14c2cb4" width="121.199000" /> <img alt="page38image1328888528" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/49c47e46-0398-4f10-af0b-96e623fe065a" width="120.600000" /> <img alt="page38image1328888816" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3f58773b-098f-4288-a559-a0445d48385e" width="123.600000" /> <img alt="page38image1328889232" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/813f8ec3-d887-4c8d-b4a7-855387fb1fca" width="120.480000" /> <img alt="page38image1328889520" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/593346c0-d272-42ac-9b28-065505d90047" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 36 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 39"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/Eviction. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">execute the warrant of removal </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- Adding the days above, a residential tenant cannot be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (see options below).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Other options After a Judgment for Possession has been entered are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above), a landlord and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement may be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can apply for relief to the court. To do so, a tenant must file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 37 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 40"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 38 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 41"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 12<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDER PREPARED BY THE COURT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division – Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Docket No. LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential<br />Civil Action</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Judgment for Possession After Breach</span></p></div></div><img alt="page41image1351695984" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/016055f9-2969-423a-a621-f4587e477368" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page41image1351696272" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3f90edaa-48ac-471b-ae4e-4f8df82a0d7c" width="111.000000" /> <img alt="page41image1351696560" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a78620a5-9b72-413e-a88f-3e40e4a99a9e" width="139.440000" /> <img alt="page41image1351696848" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4c62bf15-6e3a-4bed-8dc2-f31807bcf163" width="234.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">This matter having come before the court by way of request filed by the Plaintiff Landlord (enter landlord name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], for entry of judgment for possession against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) (enter tenant(s) name) [represented by (enter attorney name) (if applicable)], for failure to comply with the terms of the parties’ settlement agreement and the Plaintiff Landlord having submitted the certification and supporting documents of Plaintiff Landlord and Plaintiff Landlord’s attorney (if any), as required by </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">R</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. 6:7-1(e), that a judgment for possession should be entered against Defendant(s) Tenant(s) in this case, and the court having reviewed any opposition submitted, and for other good cause having been shown;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is on this <img alt="page41image1351782416" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1110bc6b-b2bf-4167-a18d-4369eb3a4a11" width="34.800000" />day of <img alt="page41image1351783728" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/27709312-5f7f-472a-807e-4d2ebd422fe6" width="73.319000" />, 20 , </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">ORDERED THAT:<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A Judgment for Possession is hereby entered for the property at issue in the Complaint.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Judge Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves; Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or legal holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant does not voluntarily leave, the steps required for eviction are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page41image1351872704" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/73665b82-e363-4d1e-8837-a5bfed298edc" width="121.199000" /> <img alt="page41image1351872992" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/05dd761d-e70b-4632-bb3a-08b102066916" width="120.600000" /> <img alt="page41image1351873280" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ef76e134-e3ce-4c89-97b9-020bce91beb1" width="123.600000" /> <img alt="page41image1351873696" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d3f9d696-a8fc-4385-b1ad-3530ac7bca18" width="120.480000" /> <img alt="page41image1351873984" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/34ad7132-bd8b-4d4c-acd8-37eab4891679" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 39 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 42"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued less than three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/Eviction. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to execute the warrant of removal by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- Adding the days above, a residential tenant cannot be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (see options below).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Other options After a Judgment for Possession has been entered are as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above), a landlord and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement may be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Step 4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can apply for relief to the court. To do so, a tenant must file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent;</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 40 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 43"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 11pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 41 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 44"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 13</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Name: _____________________________ NJ Attorney ID Number: _______________ Address: ___________________________ Telephone Number: __________________ Email:_____________________________</span></p></div></div><img alt="page44image1373685472" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1d352822-107a-4a0a-8cc9-66ff39ef8373" width="225.840000" /> <img alt="page44image1373685760" height="177.120000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eb67b485-584b-450e-a56c-bc092e6261bc" width="0.481000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">_____________________________</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff,<br />v. _____________________________</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant.</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION, SPECIAL CIVIL PART ________________COUNTY LANDLORD TENANT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">DOCKET No: LT- _________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">CIVIL ACTION</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">REQUEST FOR RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page44image1373716912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/58dc701e-641c-405c-8bde-5eaa12d0e128" width="203.160000" /> <img alt="page44image1373717200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/70e4e5a0-e21f-4807-aab6-e6d12a7a53f5" width="203.160000" /> <img alt="page44image1373717488" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2154cc22-86c0-490b-8890-338624915192" width="226.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I _____[</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">name</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">]________________am requesting a Warrant of Removal be issued in this matter and hereby certify and say:</span></p><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am the (check one): </span><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">landlord, </span><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">general partner of the partnership, or </span><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">authorized officer or agent of a corporation or limited liability company that owns the premises in which tenant(s) resides in this matter.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On [</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">insert date</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">], a landlord/tenant summary dispossession action was filed in the Special Civil Part of the Law Division.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Judgment for Possession </span><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by consent </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">after breach </span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">after default </span><span style="font-family: SegoeUISymbol; font-size: 14pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">at trial was issued in this action on [</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">insert date</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">].</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">EITHER: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The rental property that is the subject of this lawsuit is subject to the CARES Act, 15 USC 9057 and 9058. On _________I provided the tenant(s) with 30 days’ notice to vacate the property pursuant to Section 4024(c) of the CARES Act via ___[</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">insert means of service</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">]______________.</span></p></li></ol></div></div><img alt="page44image1373816432" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c407faa4-45d2-4d76-8dd0-89f852bc1984" width="66.480000" /> <img alt="page44image1373816848" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/52e5daa1-8507-4981-9e48-e33c6f1c5e8b" width="257.040000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 42 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 45"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">OR: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The rental property that is the subject of this lawsuit is not subject to the CARES Act. I submitted CARES Act certification on ___[</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">insert date</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">]___________ and no 30-day notice is required.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5. I am aware that I have a continuing obligation under Rule 1:4-8 to amend this certification if a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery indicates that any of the above may be incorrect.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true. I am aware that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Dated: _________</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">___________________________________________ (Printed Name of Landlord, Partner, Agent or Officer)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">________________________________________ (Signature of Landlord, Partner, Agent or Officer)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page45image1373988624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6ee05604-04dd-4be6-85a2-82e6b344cdba" width="304.680000" /> <img alt="page45image1373988912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f02de489-25cf-46a0-a45b-c58cc869e251" width="280.080000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">[To be promulgated]</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 43 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 46"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 14</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Defendant (Tenant(s))</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-G(1) RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page46image1374167360" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a9f462e1-c607-4c8b-adec-5b402bfe667c" width="109.320000" /> <img alt="page46image1374167648" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bdb4af21-75ce-4c44-916b-abbd59706b28" width="273.480000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division - Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page46image1374193824" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/117d1834-f06c-4c6c-b19c-7e00bc5fcdea" width="162.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You are to vacate and remove all of your possessions from the above address within three business days after receiving this warrant. Do not count Saturday, Sunday or legal holidays in calculating the three days. If you do not move within three days, a Special Civil Part Court Officer will remove all persons from the property at any time between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on or after (month) (day) (year), and will require the tenant to vacate the premises and permit the landlord to change the locks. You must leave with your property by 8:30 a.m. on (date) unless you have an order from a judge allowing you to stay longer. Afterward, your possessions may be removed by the landlord, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 2A:18-72 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">et seq</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is a crime for a tenant to damage or destroy a rental property to retaliate against a landlord. In addition to imposing criminal penalties, the court may require a tenant to pay for any damage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you apply to the Special Civil Part Court for relief. You may apply for relief by delivering a written request to the Office of the Special Civil Part and to the landlord or landlord's attorney. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Your request must be received by the Office of the Special Civil Part within three days after this warrant was served or you may be locked out</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. Before stopping this warrant, the court may include certain conditions, such as the payment of rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if you can show good reason such as</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12816, Appendix XI-G(1) page 1 of 2</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12816-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(1) página 1 de 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">44 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">-</span></p></div></div><img alt="page46image1374421920" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/744774e1-f020-4b8f-a9e0-a787ec627149" width="45.120000" /> <img alt="page46image1374422208" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0bf84fc0-6f69-46f4-9d27-1740abbdbebe" width="33.360000" /> <img alt="page46image1374422624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1d6394bd-4ade-4715-8917-c494e752ac72" width="32.640000" /> <img alt="page46image1374422912" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/70830549-07d7-4827-a835-b7863cc22013" width="542.880000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 47"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you were sued for nonpayment of rent only, you may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up until the third business day following the eviction. The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be eligible for housing assistance or other social services. To determine your eligibility, you must contact the welfare agency in your county at (address) telephone number (XXX) XXX-XXXX.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Only a Special Civil Part Officer can execute this warrant. It is illegal for a landlord to padlock or otherwise block entry to a rental property while a tenant who lives there is still in legal possession. See the attached Notice Regarding Illegal Eviction for further information. If your property has been taken or you have been locked out or denied use of the rental property by anyone other than a Special Civil Part Officer who is executing a warrant of removal, you can contact the Office of the Special Civil Part for help in (a) requesting an emergency order to return your property and/or put you back into your home; and/or (b) filing a lawsuit requesting money damages. Please have this notice with you when you contact the Office of the Special Civil Part and/or file anything with the court related to this matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you do not have an attorney, you may call the Lawyer Referral Service at (XXX) XXX- XXXX. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may call Legal Services at (XXX) XXX-XXXX.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page47image1105609328" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/42cc6df2-e19d-421f-84ca-b46699fa8531" width="51.359000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page47image1105611936" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c356d80c-f699-45c9-969b-57f36f0f8ff3" width="84.839000" /> <img alt="page47image1105612224" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3f9c3a6c-12f9-485a-83d5-97215a1f7044" width="197.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page47image1105616128" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/079a7da4-baba-4e3a-821d-3b5da0dd88d0" width="236.280000" /><img alt="page47image1105616416" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b93a4e46-4b73-4de7-817c-bb603b27efb7" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12816, Appendix XI-G(1)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12816-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(1) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">45 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 48"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 15</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Defendant (Tenant(s))</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G (2) COMMERCIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page48image1374635424" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a630b957-e68e-453f-8784-382d569f97a1" width="278.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">COMMERCIAL WARRANT OF REMOV AL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page48image1374661616" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b79b5573-c800-4b02-b352-9db1a6118330" width="111.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You are to immediately remove all persons and property from the above premises.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you apply to the court for relief. You may apply for relief by delivering a written request to the Office of the Special Civil Part and to the landlord or landlord's attorney. Before stopping this warrant, the court may include certain conditions, such as the payment of rent.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date :</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page48image582005440" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e07b5b7b-6a49-46a5-ab0b-7de1d9d53b93" width="115.800000" /> <img alt="page48image582005728" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8111140d-9387-4075-8c86-ae1a45064d4f" width="151.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page48image582009728" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3c23f936-812b-4966-869a-0676b39d3c7b" width="216.000000" /> <img alt="page48image582010016" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f3a063a6-1d56-4828-b3b4-cef30bbfeb23" width="504.000000" /><img alt="page48image582010304" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/729c9d6e-7a07-429d-9552-341032b09728" width="504.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">(BELOW THIS LINE FOR SPECIAL CIVIL PART OFFICER USE ONLY)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I hereby certify that I simultaneously served and executed this warrant of removal as follows:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date and Time</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Warrant Served and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Executed on Tenant: Method of Service:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12817, Appendix XI-G(2)<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12817-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 46 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 1 de 2</span></p></div></div><img alt="page48image582062896" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0ac443f2-65ff-4913-89c0-0118f1d6c6bf" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page48image582063184" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/70e2a5ec-10f5-4d24-a999-cbb40a8766ce" width="133.799000" /> <img alt="page48image582063728" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/87a0be94-5477-44e2-b3c7-333488d0e232" width="470.880000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 49"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If Unserved, Why:<br />Date and Time<br />Executed:<br />Date Executed Warrant Served on Tenant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Mileage Charge for Execution: $ Additional Services Performed:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Must Vacate By:<br />Date Executed/Warrant<br />Posted:<br />Date Executed/Warrant Served on Landlord:<br />Additional Services<br />Charge: $</span></p></div></div><img alt="page49image582170192" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3957e0e2-0d3f-40f4-bc6e-d86a3c85f6b9" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page49image582170480" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0af64409-0f84-40fd-8b33-ed09aa292087" width="133.799000" /> <img alt="page49image582170768" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f8997089-786f-4a93-b804-fa73fdf6bc39" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page49image582171056" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5dac11af-8eb2-475f-a861-f4061bc4c72f" width="102.240000" /> <img alt="page49image582171408" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ab9dbf3d-7e71-4f7d-9ad6-67b07453e36b" width="50.040000" /> <img alt="page49image582171696" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/29c68145-b12f-478d-990d-d51bfe233699" width="90.599000" /> <img alt="page49image582171984" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/77ebb642-ced0-4c17-8f75-8cefa76e4544" width="111.240000" /><img alt="page49image582172272" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8d6f6f88-3dcb-4931-bd01-f8a7afa52cf9" width="354.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Signature of</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page49image582177952" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/432c178f-7bb2-4f22-b10b-0393b9605e46" width="225.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Printed or Typed Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page49image582184592" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1d73016b-772f-4131-bd3c-90a058f75cf7" width="225.000000" /> <img alt="page49image582184880" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5225a623-4181-4fa0-8400-1e9f80daeddc" width="470.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12817, Appendix XI-G(2)<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12817-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 47 -</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 50"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 16</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Landlord XXXXX XXXXX Address: XXXXXXXXXXX City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Telephone: (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G(3)<br />NOTICE REGARDING ILLEGAL EVICTION</span></p></div></div><img alt="page50image582379296" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/52edba01-a628-4ca1-ae39-86d412900132" width="287.520000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attached is the warrant of removal in the above captioned matter. You are hereby advised of the following:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A person commits a disorderly person’s offense in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-11.1 if they do any of the following actions after being warned by a law enforcement officer or other public official that the actions are illegal:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) evicts a residential tenant without a warrant of removal issued by a court or without the consent of the tenant; or</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) refuses to immediately let the tenant who was evicted this way back into the premises to live there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A law enforcement officer has the duty to prevent any person from blocking or</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">preventing a tenant from reentering and reoccupying the rental property after the tenant was illegally evicted. Any tenant who was illegally evicted has a right to file a court proceeding and seek repossession of the rental property or damages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">“Illegal eviction” means to enter onto or into the rental premises and hold it by:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) any kind of violence including threatening to kill or injure the tenant;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) words, circumstances or actions which are clearly intended to incite fear, apprehension or a</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">sense of danger in the tenant;</span></p><ol start="3" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) putting the personal property or furniture of the tenant outside;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(4) entering peacefully and then, by force or threats, putting the tenant out;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(5) padlocking or changing the locks;</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12818, Appendix XI-G(3)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 1 de 2</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">NOTICE REGARDING ILLEGAL EVICTION</span></p></div></div><img alt="page50image582569872" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fe8e70c5-52d6-46ba-a1d6-b951b99e2251" width="162.000000" /> <img alt="page50image582570160" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/24f5632b-1a23-4cdb-b60e-421bf8d20f6f" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12818-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(3)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 48 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 51"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(6) shutting off vital services such as heat, electricity and water or causing them to be shut off; or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(7) any means other than a court officer executing a warrant of removal issued by a court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A person who is convicted of an offense under this section more than once within a five- year period is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page51image582710000" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f6b5a02e-2dba-42ca-9276-85a43160fc5e" width="84.839000" /> <img alt="page51image582710288" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7e3506df-ac54-4f0f-bdad-1fe2f162f66f" width="197.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page51image582714192" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8e2e6d55-62c4-4364-b42c-d4d86e98fac6" width="236.280000" /><img alt="page51image582714480" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ceb0a2c8-8201-4e04-a663-278969bf770b" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12818, Appendix XI-G(3)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12818-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(3)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 49 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 52"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Attachment 17<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">EXECUTION OF RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G(4)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page52image1105868560" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a7efb875-38db-4e00-bb79-6de4b7ea7121" width="384.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">EXECUTION OF RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page52image1105924256" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9ca09fbe-7e12-4284-a879-c88634f63319" width="162.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Per the attached warrant of removal, you are hereby commanded to dispossess the residential tenant(s) and place the landlord in full possession of the premises listed above. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Local police departments are authorized and requested to provide assistance, if needed, to the Special Civil Part Officer executing this warrant</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Law Enforcement Officers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential tenants evicted without a warrant of removal are entitled to reenter and reoccupy the premises and shall not be considered trespassers or chargeable with any offense provided that a law enforcement officer is present at the time of reentry. It is the duty of the law enforcement officer to prevent the landlord or anyone else from obstructing or hindering the reentry and re-occupancy of the dwelling by a tenant who was evicted without a warrant of possession executed by a Special Civil Part Officer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I hereby certify that I served and executed this Residential Warrant of Removal and Notice Regarding Illegal Eviction, as follows:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page52image1106034192" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dbf6948d-6f51-434c-8ae8-0c0d1b3bb1f4" width="540.000000" /><img alt="page52image1106034480" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/94e98ecb-f5ee-4de8-886d-6d94e60ddb5e" width="540.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date First Served: If Unserved, Why:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date and Time Executed:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Served on Tenant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Additional Services Charge: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 2pt;">$ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C o n v i g o r a p a r t i r d e l 1 d e s e p t i e m b r e d e 2 0 2 1 p o r O r d e n d e l 1 4 d e j u l i o d e 2 0 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1 , </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">5</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C N</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">0 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2 8 1 9 - S p a n i s h , A p é n d i c e X I - G ( 4 )</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Method of Service:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Must Vacate By:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Posted:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Served on Landlord:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page52image1106088656" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9cd21942-79af-41f1-b4dc-c0fd78bc3087" width="151.799000" /> <img alt="page52image1106088944" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/92043b05-1d22-4df3-a06c-01f3570f9ecd" width="153.000000" /> <img alt="page52image1106089232" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1ea83a78-0c90-4ac5-8b30-7cf1e39de054" width="151.799000" /> <img alt="page52image1106089520" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5a3f08c6-09a3-444b-9e0a-b328362a6960" width="153.000000" /> <img alt="page52image1106089808" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d03690ef-6959-4d21-869e-834512095d94" width="115.799000" /><img alt="page52image1106090096" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/765c19bb-344f-4fe2-b5f5-686a9d35498c" width="81.000000" /> <img alt="page52image1106090384" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5ed5a443-9320-401b-a34e-7c9b5671fae5" width="129.240000" /> <img alt="page52image1106090928" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1f98436e-53c2-4dff-8e81-fc4b18b89016" width="81.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Mileage Charge for Execution:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">$</span></p></div></div><img alt="page52image1106095488" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e7a4202f-9350-4c84-8f46-9903eccd496d" width="79.799000" /> <img alt="page52image1106095776" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5460212e-d554-47d8-bbc6-0b04233dab1e" width="99.000000" /> <img alt="page52image1106096064" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b46c92a4-9d2b-4aa6-8e6e-e5e32b6d52ee" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12819, Appendix XI-G(4)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">p á g i n a 1 d e 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 53"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Additional Services Performed:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page53image1105818464" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b79b878a-c272-4a17-9eed-2903efbda6b6" width="351.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Signature of Special Civil Part Officer<br />Printed or Typed Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page53image1105839936" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/39a3ff10-a48d-4652-aece-6107d47ab109" width="373.440000" /> <img alt="page53image1105840224" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4c4a1eb1-bcb1-4280-baba-82f17ee98ac4" width="373.440000" /><img alt="page53image1105840512" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/70b1c2f5-c404-4c66-b4c2-534df3574a35" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12819, Appendix XI-G(4) page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C o n v i g o r a p a r t i r d e l 1 d e s e p t i e m b r e d e 2 0 2 1 p o r O r d e n d e l 1 4 d e j u l i o d e 2 0 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1 , </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">5</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C N</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2 8 1 9 - S p a n i s h , A p é n d i c e X I - G ( 4 ) p á g i n a 2 d e 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 54"><img alt="page54image1071599680" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/423dcdc3-0d8d-4b00-826b-f323b144f7fb" width="612.000000" /><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">It </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">is ORDERED that the attached amendments to Rule 6:6-4 ("Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Settlement") </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Rules Governing the Courts </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the State o</span><span style="color: #bcbcbc; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">_</span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">fNew </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Jersey are adopted to be effective September 1, 2021;and</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">It </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">is FURTHER ORDERED that Rules Appendix XI-G ("Warrant </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal") is replaced effective September 1, 2021 with the attached </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">R11;les </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Appendices XI-G(l) ("Residential Warrant </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal"), XI-G(2) ("Commercial Warrant </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal"), XI-G(3) ("Notice Regarding Illegal Eviction"), and XI- G(4) ("Execution </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Residential Warrant </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal"); and</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">It </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">is FURTHER ORDERED that the attached revised version </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Rules Appendix </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700;">XI-S </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">("Landlord Tenant Pre-Calendar Call Instructions") replaces the current version </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">that appendix effective September 1, 2021; and</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">It </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">is FURTHER ORDERED that current Rules Appendix XI-V ("Consent to Enter Judgment (Tenant to Stay in Premises)" is replaced by the attached revised and recaptioned Rules Appendix XI-V ("Settlement Agreement (Tenant to Stay in Premises)"), effective September 1, 2021; and</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">It </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">is FURTHER ORDERED that the Court delegates to the Administrative Director the authority to make subsequent necessary revisions to the above- referenced Rules Appendices adopted by this Order with such subsequent revisions to be promulgated by notice to the bar.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Dated: July 14, 2021</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 1-</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">For </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the </span><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Court,</span><span style="color: #5263cf; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="color: #5263cf; font-family: HiddenHorzOCR; font-size: 50pt; vertical-align: -34pt;">~</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #5263cf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 29pt;">S.1</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #5263cf; font-family: Times; font-size: 9pt;">°</span><span style="color: #5263cf; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">"'</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #131213; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Chief Justice</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 55"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6:6-4. Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement, Residential Cases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Notwithstanding any consent by a tenant, no warrant of removal may be issued or executed unless in compliance with all provisions of law.]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(a) Entry by the Court. A stipulation of settlement or an agreement that provides for entry of a judgment for possession against an unrepresented tenant must be written, either signed by the parties or placed on the record in lieu of signature, and reviewed, approved and signed by a judge on the day of the court proceeding [;]. Additionally, [but] if it requires the unrepresented tenant to both pay rent and vacate the premises, the judge shall also review it in open court. It must also be accompanied by the affidavit of the landlord and the certification of the landlord's attorney required by R. 6:6-3(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(b) Entry by the Clerk. When the tenant is represented by an attorney and the attorney has signed the agreement, the clerk may enter judgment for possession upon receipt of the signed consent of the parties and the affidavit of the landlord and the certification of the landlord's attorney specified in R. 6:6-3(b).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Note: Adopted July 18, 2001 to be effective November 1, 2001; paragraph (a) amended July 31, 2020 to be effective September 1, 2020; caption amended, introductory sentence deleted, and paragraph (a) amended July 14, 2021 to be effective September 1, 2021.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page55image889248096" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/63036c2d-ddfd-4f7a-820a-17c90a83d9c9" width="366.120000" /> <img alt="page55image889248384" height="0.360000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/32b99b7d-527d-454d-8313-8c8f6e904aa9" width="99.120000" /> <img alt="page55image889248672" height="0.360000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d83e3de5-0b32-4314-ab6e-64be76459300" width="99.120000" /> <img alt="page55image889248960" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ffafc468-bc94-45e0-97f9-12fa98ad3471" width="138.720000" /><img alt="page55image889249248" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cf73eda6-488c-4a2f-9125-bea72a758f86" width="174.361000" /> <img alt="page55image889249536" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/21a82c63-0888-4a66-b45a-a9a52ab84966" width="31.919000" /> <img alt="page55image889249824" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4bed7c9c-c60d-4cdd-90d2-8d3445596314" width="242.761000" /> <img alt="page55image889250112" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ee194f97-08e3-42b0-9011-82bb7ffab992" width="74.520000" /> <img alt="page55image889250528" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f83bc762-5564-45d3-b8c6-edf52b1f39ab" width="78.600000" /> <img alt="page55image889250816" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a562ac5b-6175-45ac-826e-38bf99e4a8e2" width="127.440000" /><img alt="page55image889251104" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d6354750-e8ff-444e-baa5-cf80d1d6e2d2" width="113.160000" /> <img alt="page55image889251392" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6b04149f-4be5-4595-be8a-8740c96bce53" width="468.000000" /> <img alt="page55image889251680" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d2712288-996b-43eb-bf95-634e0b773eb1" width="157.920000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 2-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 56"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-G(1) RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page56image889451168" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/82553fc1-22d1-4d62-8b5c-9359436397f5" width="109.320000" /> <img alt="page56image889451456" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5620e667-35fa-4dc0-934d-baa366038060" width="273.480000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Defendant (Tenant(s))</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division - Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page56image889503136" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2cdbca6b-f9f9-4d87-9f7c-e2c325067455" width="162.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You are to vacate and remove all of your possessions from the above address within three business days after receiving this warrant. Do not count Saturday, Sunday or legal holidays in calculating the three days. If you do not move within three days, a Special Civil Part Court Officer will remove all persons from the property at any time between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on or after (month) (day) (year), and will require the tenant to vacate the premises and permit the landlord to change the locks. You must leave with your property by 8:30 a.m. on (date) unless you have an order from a judge allowing you to stay longer. Afterward, your possessions may be removed by the landlord, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 2A:18-72 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">et seq</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is a crime for a tenant to damage or destroy a rental property to retaliate against a landlord. In addition to imposing criminal penalties, the court may require a tenant to pay for any damage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you apply to the Special Civil Part Court for relief. You may apply for relief by delivering a written request to the Office of the Special Civil Part and to the landlord or landlord's attorney. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Your request must be received by the Office of the Special Civil Part within three days after this warrant was served or you may be locked out</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. Before stopping this warrant, the court may include certain conditions, such as the payment of rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You can also file a motion under </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Rule </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if you can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12816, Appendix XI-G(1) page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C o n v i g o r a p a r t i r d e l 1 d e s e p t i e m b r e d e 2 0 2 1 p o r O r d e n d e l 1 4 d e j u l i o d e 2 0 2 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">, C </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">N 1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2 8 1 6 - S p a n i s h , A p é n d i c e X I - G ( 1 ) p á g i n a 1 d e 2</span></p></div></div><img alt="page56image889742592" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3970c6a3-b1d7-4e45-b72a-a2ecc45d2cb8" width="45.120000" /> <img alt="page56image889742880" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ebdefc79-7ba7-4d96-ad40-3b5c594c51e1" width="33.360000" /> <img alt="page56image889743168" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9c7042dc-fdec-4691-a4da-70f5ea3fb289" width="32.640000" /> <img alt="page56image889743584" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4eaf3c38-7195-48fa-97d0-6d9c673c8079" width="542.880000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 57"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you were sued for nonpayment of rent only, you may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up until the third business day following the eviction. The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be eligible for housing assistance or other social services. To determine your eligibility, you must contact the welfare agency in your county at (address) telephone number (XXX) XXX-XXXX.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Only a Special Civil Part Officer can execute this warrant. It is illegal for a landlord to padlock or otherwise block entry to a rental property while a tenant who lives there is still in legal possession. See the attached Notice Regarding Illegal Eviction for further information. If your property has been taken or you have been locked out or denied use of the rental property by anyone other than a Special Civil Part Officer who is executing a warrant of removal, you can contact the Office of the Special Civil Part for help in (a) requesting an emergency order to return your property and/or put you back into your home; and/or (b) filing a lawsuit requesting money damages. Please have this notice with you when you contact the Office of the Special Civil Part and/or file anything with the court related to this matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you do not have an attorney, you may call the Lawyer Referral Service at (XXX) XXX- XXXX. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may call Legal Services at (XXX) XXX-XXXX.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page57image1047113424" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5fed7bfc-dd55-4525-bc6b-241bffe01efa" width="51.359000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page57image1047116032" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fdacae56-01ff-4bf6-9167-d6d293480a65" width="84.839000" /> <img alt="page57image1047116320" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/63c7da95-9d27-47ef-98d6-9e91a7800414" width="197.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page57image1047120224" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/989810bd-ab30-46de-8cec-bb078c790dd6" width="236.280000" /><img alt="page57image1047120512" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/229c2f9c-aab0-4db2-8678-c5311a1b6cc5" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12816, Appendix XI-G(1)<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">C o n v i g o r a p a r t i r d e l 1 d e s e p t i e m b r e d e 2 0 2 1 p o r O r d e n d e l 1 4 d e j u l i o d e 2 0 2 1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">, C </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">N 1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2 8 1 6 - S p a n i s h , A p é n d i c e X I - G ( 1 )</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">p á g i n a 2 d e 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 58"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Defendant (Tenant(s))</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">COMMERCIAL WARRANT OF REMOV AL</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G (2) COMMERCIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page58image608277600" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/aec6bcbc-8c08-42c7-b77a-ab5bc230dd3f" width="278.880000" /> <img alt="page58image608277888" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cda49158-575d-4855-bee7-475b74605fc6" width="111.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You are to immediately remove all persons and property from the above premises.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You may be able to stop this warrant and remain in the property if you apply to the court for relief. You may apply for relief by delivering a written request to the Office of the Special Civil Part and to the landlord or landlord's attorney. Before stopping this warrant, the court may include certain conditions, such as the payment of rent.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date :</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page58image608328656" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b45ccd09-e053-4efb-ba78-1d429e616b09" width="115.800000" /> <img alt="page58image608328944" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1760c08f-eec6-4c73-9f2d-fb20bb025bc6" width="151.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page58image608332960" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b5c2138e-7254-40a8-8ae3-0e92cf97529e" width="216.000000" /> <img alt="page58image608333248" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4ecbb81b-06da-4439-900f-1d04ce25f661" width="504.000000" /><img alt="page58image608333536" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e893480d-17bc-4a4f-a408-451f859a4188" width="504.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">(BELOW THIS LINE FOR SPECIAL CIVIL PART OFFICER USE ONLY)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I hereby certify that I simultaneously served and executed this warrant of removal as follows:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date and Time</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Warrant Served and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Executed on Tenant: Method of Service:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12817, Appendix XI-G(2)<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12817-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 5-</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 1 de 2</span></p></div></div><img alt="page58image608385872" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7303e77b-c2fd-47dc-9123-933cfca78cac" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page58image608386160" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/547828c2-65b5-4bd9-ad53-42c799cad31e" width="133.799000" /> <img alt="page58image608386448" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5ccaca6c-c1ab-4a5f-bd40-e82f1999c0d9" width="470.880000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 59"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If Unserved, Why:<br />Date and Time<br />Executed:<br />Date Executed Warrant Served on Tenant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Mileage Charge for Execution: $ Additional Services Performed:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Must Vacate By:<br />Date Executed/Warrant<br />Posted:<br />Date Executed/Warrant Served on Landlord:<br />Additional Services<br />Charge: $</span></p></div></div><img alt="page59image582794624" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f1f54f5d-6592-40d3-a836-45b8dfc2fcfe" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page59image582794912" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/45233550-f3b3-435f-9ad0-1a1dd57bbc26" width="133.799000" /> <img alt="page59image582795200" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7371433c-10f7-4d69-8137-e97d19680a7b" width="122.040000" /> <img alt="page59image582795488" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/59c8469e-05f0-4845-8047-c58b17da5657" width="102.240000" /> <img alt="page59image582795840" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a55a8ef6-4977-471b-bb3a-560f06f805a1" width="50.040000" /> <img alt="page59image582796128" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8fb7a9b0-4c91-4af1-86a5-f961bd402003" width="90.599000" /> <img alt="page59image582796416" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b9f1cf1f-132e-4fd3-ab47-535e50bd787a" width="111.240000" /><img alt="page59image582796704" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6b9d2ca2-d988-4ac4-aada-9def857fa748" width="354.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Signature of</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page59image582802256" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9fa22570-eb2c-4789-b8e3-690053740ea1" width="225.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Printed or Typed Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page59image582808992" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/20df7dfa-443a-442c-b13a-94eec67de617" width="225.000000" /> <img alt="page59image582809280" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2302a324-355d-49bb-b9bb-f8ea24284822" width="470.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12817, Appendix XI-G(2)<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12817-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-6-</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 60"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Landlord XXXXX XXXXX Address: XXXXXXXXXXX City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Telephone: (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">NOTICE REGARDING ILLEGAL EVICTION</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G(3)<br />NOTICE REGARDING ILLEGAL EVICTION</span></p></div></div><img alt="page60image1144706112" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ec63a902-7fe1-4c1b-af90-9bda33b45563" width="287.520000" /> <img alt="page60image1144706400" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7b282eb6-3b6e-49cb-9b79-56fb17f76c35" width="162.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attached is the warrant of removal in the above captioned matter. You are hereby advised of the following:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A person commits a disorderly person’s offense in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-11.1 if they do any of the following actions after being warned by a law enforcement officer or other public official that the actions are illegal:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) evicts a residential tenant without a warrant of removal issued by a court or without the consent of the tenant; or</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) refuses to immediately let the tenant who was evicted this way back into the premises to live there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A law enforcement officer has the duty to prevent any person from blocking or</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">preventing a tenant from reentering and reoccupying the rental property after the tenant was illegally evicted. Any tenant who was illegally evicted has a right to file a court proceeding and seek repossession of the rental property or damages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">“Illegal eviction” means to enter onto or into the rental premises and hold it by:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) any kind of violence including threatening to kill or injure the tenant;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) words, circumstances or actions which are clearly intended to incite fear, apprehension or a</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">sense of danger in the tenant;</span></p><ol start="3" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) putting the personal property or furniture of the tenant outside;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(4) entering peacefully and then, by force or threats, putting the tenant out;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(5) padlocking or changing the locks;</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12818, Appendix XI-G(3)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 1 de 2</span></p></div></div><img alt="page60image1144870080" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/67f5fe0b-b555-464b-a009-6710b2312a71" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12818-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(3)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-7-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 61"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(6) shutting off vital services such as heat, electricity and water or causing them to be shut off; or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(7) any means other than a court officer executing a warrant of removal issued by a court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A person who is convicted of an offense under this section more than once within a five- year period is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(Judge)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page61image1145784672" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c3d19c80-ad79-4cd4-8da0-be2279b567a9" width="84.839000" /> <img alt="page61image1145784960" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bf61a8fa-8752-4b56-aa38-9d6e49198f2a" width="197.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Clerk of the Superior Court</span></p></div></div><img alt="page61image1145788864" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b57b99e3-6818-4de6-891f-5fd172484e32" width="236.280000" /><img alt="page61image1145789152" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d445303c-d212-493c-98a9-d938b089c3dd" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12818, Appendix XI-G(3)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021, CN 12818-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(3)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-8-</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 62"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">APPENDIX XI-G(4)<br />EXECUTION OF RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page62image613705552" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4c0aef44-aca8-45d2-81a8-c6c975c159ad" width="384.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket No.:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's Name Plaintiff(s) - Landlord(s)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">- vs - Defendant's Name</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant(s) - Tenant(s) (Address -- 1st Line) (Address -- 2nd Line) City, NJ 00ZIP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey<br />Law Division, Special Civil Part Landlord/Tenant Section Any County (Court Address -- 1st Line)<br />(Court Address -- 2nd Line)<br />City, NJ 00ZIP<br />Phone No. (XXX) XXX-XXXX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">EXECUTION OF RESIDENTIAL WARRANT OF REMOVAL</span></p></div></div><img alt="page62image613763328" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9c9205f0-f65a-4935-8630-ef6003a0db16" width="162.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Per the attached warrant of removal, you are hereby commanded to dispossess the residential tenant(s) and place the landlord in full possession of the premises listed above. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Local police departments are authorized and requested to provide assistance, if needed, to the Special Civil Part Officer executing this warrant</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">To: Law Enforcement Officers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Residential tenants evicted without a warrant of removal are entitled to reenter and reoccupy the premises and shall not be considered trespassers or chargeable with any offense provided that a law enforcement officer is present at the time of reentry. It is the duty of the law enforcement officer to prevent the landlord or anyone else from obstructing or hindering the reentry and re-occupancy of the dwelling by a tenant who was evicted without a warrant of possession executed by a Special Civil Part Officer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I hereby certify that I served and executed this Residential Warrant of Removal and Notice Regarding Illegal Eviction, as follows:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page62image613873264" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a40421ab-2bff-42c2-815d-4ebd87a5a19a" width="540.000000" /><img alt="page62image613873552" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e2912cc4-b37f-4fb9-b565-dd240b4b7938" width="540.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date First Served: If Unserved, Why:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date and Time Executed:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Served on Tenant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Additional Services Charge: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 2pt;">$ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 2021</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">, C</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">9</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">N 1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2819-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(4)</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Method of Service:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Must Vacate By:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Posted:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date Executed Warrant Served on Landlord:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page62image613916208" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c833e97e-ed11-4b0c-a825-e4834f2b3c8f" width="151.799000" /> <img alt="page62image613916496" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9e429d41-bd7e-45ee-8270-c3de6cc87578" width="153.000000" /> <img alt="page62image613916784" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/456d51af-3d9d-4b2a-afe4-0192d20aa610" width="151.799000" /> <img alt="page62image613917072" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ae6fa4bf-9fca-4fa4-85db-1c80ecc54a94" width="153.000000" /> <img alt="page62image613917360" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/62955bb7-43f3-4a9e-a1eb-2e259e2929eb" width="115.799000" /><img alt="page62image613917648" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9374049d-b185-4690-b09e-bb1335dfbb81" width="81.000000" /> <img alt="page62image613917936" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6ad6bb74-f4c5-453e-8789-0f53a2e066f3" width="129.240000" /> <img alt="page62image613918224" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e77a1a31-9e39-42e5-8871-267594e96147" width="81.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Mileage Charge for Execution:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">$</span></p></div></div><img alt="page62image613923024" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5680415f-a54d-407f-a0ef-185efd67268d" width="79.799000" /> <img alt="page62image613923312" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a6a62aea-a3b5-43df-9e29-4976baa492e6" width="99.000000" /> <img alt="page62image613923600" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/177ee10e-b672-4672-94b5-8b1482e9f341" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12819, Appendix XI-G(4)</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">page 1 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">página 1 de 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 63"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Additional Services Performed:</span></p></div></div><img alt="page63image614048544" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/14240090-a2c8-44ff-941c-0be2066c5964" width="351.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Signature of Special Civil Part Officer<br />Printed or Typed Name of Special Civil Part Officer</span></p></div></div><img alt="page63image614059552" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fde2227e-2b91-4b41-8ee3-23a0a6da73dc" width="373.440000" /> <img alt="page63image614059840" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ab4c1791-cf83-436e-903d-78aec3c0839d" width="373.440000" /><img alt="page63image614060128" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c500ecc6-6a56-40d3-9db4-4a0a31d37baa" width="542.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021 by 07/14/2021 Order, CN 12819, Appendix XI-G(4) page 2 of 2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">Con vigor a partir del 1 de septiembre de 2021 por Orden del 14 de julio de 202</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">CN</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">0</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">2819-Spanish, Apéndice XI-G(4) página 2 de 2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 64"><img alt="page64image582965264" height="71.932000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/33e81abc-dbc6-4f57-b8e4-00c4bbd0967e" width="53.199911" /> <img alt="page64image665866352" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4ff84291-62a7-4434-a3ff-31ca38a35645" width="89.880000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">New </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">J</span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">ersey </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">Co</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">u</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 6pt;">rts </span><span style="color: #727272; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">www.n)cour1s </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">.</span><span style="color: #818282; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt;">9o•</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-S<br />New Jersey Judiciary Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Landlord Tenant Trial Information</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 53pt;">.,</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 24pt;">ft</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">I</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">ndependence • Integrit</span><span style="color: #727272; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">y </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 4pt;">Fairness </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">· </span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt;">Quality Service</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The following information is a </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">brief </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">overview of landlord tenant court procedures. Please read these instructions carefully. This information is not intended to take the place of legal advice, but it will provide you with a general understanding of the process. If a party needs an interpreter, they should contact the court by phone or email.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A landlord has filed a lawsuit against a tenant to regain possession of their property, meaning a landlord wants to evict (also known as “lockout”), a tenant. In order to evict a tenant, the landlord must first get a judgment for possession. Before that can happen, tenants have a right to a trial. If a trial occurs, a judge will decide whether a judgment for possession should be entered. A judgment for possession allows a landlord to request a warrant of removal from the court. If a judgment is entered, the court will provide a written document to the landlord and tenant that explains the basis for the court’s decision and what will happen next. The warrant of removal allows a Special Civil Part Officer to proceed with a tenant’s eviction from the property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Illegal Evictions: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A landlord cannot evict tenants from a rental property, only a Special Civil Part Officer can perform an eviction. In order to have a Special Civil Part Officer evict a tenant, a landlord must first get a judgment for possession and then a warrant of removal from the court. It is illegal for the landlord to force a tenant out by changing the locks, padlocking the doors, or shutting off gas, water or electricity. Landlords can only remove a tenant’s belongings after an eviction as permitted by the Abandoned Tenant Property Act N.J.S.A. 2A:18-72 (unless otherwise provided for in a non-residential lease).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their homes illegally should call police. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has released guidance on illegal lockouts and the role of law enforcement agencies in preventing them. More information is available at the following link:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcj/agguide/directives/ag-Directive-2021-2_Illegal_Evictions.pdf</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Tenants who have been locked out of their rental property illegally can also file a civil complaint at the county courthouse. For more information on illegal evictions (lockouts) go to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">www.njcourts.gov</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Available Resources: </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Court staff can give the parties a list of agencies that may be able to assist with rent, temporary shelter, or legal services. Information about rental assistance programs – including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic – is available online at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">www.njcourts.gov. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Information about legal resources also is posted online:</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/selfhelp_landlordtenant.html#tenants.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page64image666198016" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6d1a1ba1-baec-469b-8f3f-211412a182fe" width="461.281000" /> <img alt="page64image666198304" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2fd2b60b-3071-4f34-af63-74e49ec69026" width="273.840000" /><img alt="page64image666198720" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bc6afc2f-fdad-44f8-b4c8-5d56ab917118" width="502.800000" /> <img alt="page64image666199008" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c69ea6ca-ccdc-4392-b90d-7156b3b5713d" width="103.560000" /> <img alt="page64image666199296" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/85ad8569-bb8d-4804-b235-b94b52d10922" width="107.040000" /><img alt="page64image666199584" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a9894700-1947-4200-bc2a-b172455ee288" width="402.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 11 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 1 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 65"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">1. Appearing on Your Trial Date</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Trials may be conducted virtually, by video, or in person if the parties are unable to participate virtually. On the scheduled trial date, a list of cases will be scheduled to be heard. If both the landlord and the tenant are present, the case will be marked READY for trial. If the tenant is not present, the case may be marked “DEFAULT.” If the landlord is not present or if both parties do not appear, the case may be “DISMISSED.” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You will have a chance to ask questions of court staff.</span></p><ol start="2"><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Settlements</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Settlement conferences will be offered before the trial. Those conferences generally will be conducted virtually (by video). Parties will have the opportunity to meet with court staff for these conferences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The parties should talk to each other to try to settle their case. Neutral court staff will help the parties try to settle their case. Parties are not required to settle their case and have the right to a trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You should settle only if you understand the terms of the agreement and they are acceptable to you. If you are a tenant and do not comply with the settlement agreement, you can be evicted. If the parties agree on a settlement, parties can complete a settlement agreement form which can be completed virtually or in person. A copy of any settlement agreement will be sent to the parties. You are not limited to the contents of the settlement forms. Note, any settlement involving an unrepresented residential tenant that seeks to enter a consent judgment for possession must be approved by the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Right to a Trial</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you are a tenant and you disagree with what your landlord claims, such as the amount of the rent that is owed, you have the right to explain your position, before and at trial.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Waiting for Trial</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you do not settle, a judge will hear your case. Most trials will be conducted virtually, by video. Parties can use courthouse technology rooms to participate, if necessary. In some cases, the trial may be conducted in person. The court expects to reach all cases on the scheduled trial date; however, if your case cannot be reached that day, you will have your case rescheduled and have to appear either virtually or in person another day. If you are a tenant and you request to adjourn (postpone) the trial date, the judge may first require you to deposit some or all of the rent due with the court. If a deposit is required, it can be paid in cash, money order or bank cashier’s check made payable to the Treasurer, State of New Jersey. If the rent is not deposited as directed, a default will be entered in favor of the landlord. That means the landlord will be able to take steps to have you evicted.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Non-Payment of Rent Cases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The following information applies in cases where a landlord claims the tenant owes rent:</span></p></li></ol></div></div><img alt="page65image666703376" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/360d541f-1bfd-4fdc-956e-6656db509bc2" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page65image666703664" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/31905019-291e-4dd4-9674-ea84c1aabc94" width="93.000000" /><img alt="page65image666703952" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3a3f57bb-a00f-468f-945d-8e278c072ad5" width="421.200000" /> <img alt="page65image666704240" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/60298710-f8d1-4971-83de-51f41955f278" width="35.761000" /><img alt="page65image666704528" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/10480669-9843-4b9f-a36f-94b7622edff6" width="308.759000" /> <img alt="page65image666704880" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/67656b23-de25-47f6-9b1b-a3346e5ce09f" width="76.680000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 12 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 2 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 66"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Dismissal of Case Upon Payment or Deposit. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you are a tenant, the case against you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">will be dismissed if you pay all of the rent that is due plus court costs to the landlord or to the court on or before the date a judge enters a judgment for possession. If your case is tried remotely, the court will delay entry of the judgment until the following business day. Note: The tenant may still make payments after a judgment for possession is entered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Fees or Other Charges as Additional Rent. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Attorney’s fees, late fees and/or other charges are only allowed if there is a lease that calls these items “additional rent.” Even if the lease does say that, the amount due as rent may be limited by rent control, or if there is public assistance, the rent may be limited by local, state, or federal law. For example, if a tenant receives Section 8 assistance, the landlord cannot include a late charge in the amount that the tenant owes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">6. HoldoverCases</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If the eviction case is for a reason other than nonpayment of rent, the landlord should have served the tenant with written notice(s) before filing the complaint for eviction and attached these notice(s) to the complaint when filed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">7. Limitation on Court’s Powers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A judge cannot force the parties to settle. A settlement is entirely voluntary. For example, a tenant may want more time to pay rent owed or to pay in installments. Unless the landlord agrees to such terms, the court must enter a judgment for possession, which then allows the landlord to take steps to gain possession of the property and evict the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">8. EvictionProcedures/Steps<br />Step 1 - Entry of Judgment for Possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the court enters a judgment for possession, the court is granting the landlord the legal right to possession of the premises. This may happen if the landlord can prove their case on the day of trial, if the tenant fails to appear and the case is marked as “Default,” or if the landlord and tenant agree to the entry of a judgment for possession.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 2 - Issuance of Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After the judgment for possession is entered, the landlord may ask the court to issue a warrant of removal to a Special Civil Part Officer. The warrant of removal may not be issued at least three (3) business days after the judgment for possession is entered. A Special Civil Part Officer is the person who serves (delivers) the warrant of removal on the tenant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 3 - Service of the Warrant of Removal. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The warrant of removal must be served by the Special Civil Part Officer on the tenant by delivering or posting the warrant of removal on the door of the rental property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Step 4 –Execution of the Warrant of Removal/ Eviction</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">. Three (3) business days after the warrant of removal is served, a landlord may request that the Special Civil Part Officer return to the residential rental property a second time to execute the warrant of removal by requiring the tenant to vacate the premises and permitting the landlord to change the locks. This is when the eviction (lockout) is completed.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page66image1064979696" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c042d2f5-3661-4d86-9e0f-0734b3ed7422" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page66image1064979984" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d5110218-ebeb-42b5-82b9-f7256e6f2611" width="177.720000" /><img alt="page66image1064980272" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/121abbce-2ad2-48cc-a196-3ad911b5fa42" width="508.200000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 13 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 3 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 67"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Landlord/Tenant Trial Information<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">NOTE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">: Landlords cannot evict tenants themselves Special Civil Part Officers are the only individuals authorized to evict tenants. Tenants cannot be evicted on a weekend or holiday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Summary - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A residential tenant cannot be evicted until the landlord follows the steps above. A residential tenant may not be evicted any earlier than eight (8) calendar days after a judgment for possession has been entered. In non-payment of rent cases, even after an eviction by a Special Civil Part Officer, a residential tenant may be able to return to stay in the rental property if the tenant pays the landlord all rent due plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction. (See 9.B. Paying all Rent Due and Owing, below)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">9. Options After a Judgment for Possession<br /></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Agreement. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">After a judgment for possession has been entered (Step 1 above), a landlord</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and tenant can still try to make an agreement to stop an eviction. If the landlord and the tenant agree, the agreement should be in writing and a copy of the agreement should be filed with the court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">B. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Paying all Rent Due and Owing. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By law, a tenant can pay all rent due and owing plus proper costs up to three (3) business days after the eviction (Step 4 above). The landlord must accept this payment and/or cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Asking the Court for Relief</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">.<br />A tenant can apply for relief to the court even after an eviction. To do so, a tenant must</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">file:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(1) An application for orderly removal requesting up to seven (7) more calendar days to move out if there is a good reason;</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(2) A motion requesting dismissal with prejudice of the nonpayment of rent action because the residential tenant paid all rent due and owing plus proper costs, or because the landlord refused to accept the residential tenant’s payment, within three (3) business days following the eviction; or an order to show cause because the landlord refused to cooperate with a rental assistance program or bona fide charitable organization that has committed to pay the rent; and/or</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">(3) An application for a hardship stay which delays the eviction based on the unavailability of other housing accommodations. That delay cannot be for more than six (6) months from entry of the judgment for possession, and the tenant will have to pay all rent and proper costs.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A tenant can also file a motion under Rule 4:50-1 requesting that the judgment for possession be vacated (reversed) and the complaint dismissed, if the tenant can show good reason such as mistake or excusable neglect, fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party, newly discovered evidence or any other reason justifying relief from the judgment for possession. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Court staff can provide tenants with the forms needed to ask for any of the above types of relief.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page67image682647728" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4679fe52-e62d-4271-a68e-74559223c9c3" width="542.880000" /> <img alt="page67image682648016" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c739239f-79ec-46b1-83a0-0b6f567a2e29" width="47.880000" /><img alt="page67image682648304" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b1b1bdd0-410f-4a9f-aadd-1cf1c042682d" width="175.080000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">Revised effective 09/01/2021 CN 10887 (Appendix XI-S) </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">- 14 - </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 10pt;">page 4 of 4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 68"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Appendix XI-V<br />Settlement Agreement (Tenant Remains)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page68image1144999520" height="1.320000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ccb0b405-60ca-4c70-a2d2-1d4c71bfb633" width="244.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">The tenant and landlord hereby agree that:</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Special Civil Part</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">County Landlord-Tenant Division</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Docket Number LT-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Settlement Agreement (Tenant to Stay in Premises)</span></p></div></div><img alt="page68image1145028368" height="0.481000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/049411a8-2d23-4968-a1b1-8d132d4e757e" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page68image1145028656" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1739d7fd-6cdf-4c8a-91a3-0f9bbdc7f3fe" width="111.000000" /> <img alt="page68image1145028944" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f3809e74-f5cf-4109-9aae-c73df6fde850" width="234.000000" /> <img alt="page68image1145029232" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8b5f76cc-9303-4dbf-ad90-aed1ffe85f44" width="143.640000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Select one:<br /></span><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">To the immediate entry of a Judgment for Possession</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. The parties understand that a</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Warrant of Removal will not be issued, and an eviction will not take place at this time. However, if the tenant breaches this agreement, the landlord may file a certification of breach with the court, on notice to the tenant. The Court may then issue a Warrant of Removal which starts the eviction process.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OR</span></p><p><span style="font-family: MS; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">☐ </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">No Judgment for Possession is entered. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The parties understand that if the tenant breaches this agreement, the landlord may file a certification of breach with the court, on notice to the Tenant. The court may then enter a Judgment for Possession and a Warrant of Removal may issue.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tenant shall pay to the landlord $ , which the tenant admits is now due and owing. The tenant shall pay this amount as follows:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 11pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">$ immediately, which the landlord admits receiving; and</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 11pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">$ each month until all the back rent due under this agreement is paid, which is no later than <img alt="page68image690075296" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f0bc541f-5c69-49f3-bb98-587e0bb36214" width="80.401000" />.</span></p></li></ol></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tenant is also required to continue to pay $ each month as required by the rental agreement, during the duration of the payment plan set forth in paragraph 2.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All payments made by the tenant, as set forth in paragraph 2, shall first be applied by the landlord to the tenant(s)’ monthly rental obligation as required under the rental agreement and then shall be applied to pay the balance of the back rent as stated in paragraph 2. </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">If the tenant fails to make any payment that is required in paragraph 2 of this agreement, the tenant may be evicted as permitted by law after the service of the Warrant of Removal.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This agreement shall end when the tenant has paid the full amount of back rent as stated in paragraph 2. Once paid in full, the judgment, if any, shall be vacated and the complaint shall</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021, CN 10514</span></p></div></div><img alt="page68image690170112" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/436a7243-f3a8-49fa-8f78-ea08b50d492d" width="97.681000" /> <img alt="page68image690170528" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/79945c0f-136e-4b41-af8b-e30641545d16" width="80.280000" /> <img alt="page68image690170816" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/636cb379-3e10-486d-8db1-f63c52faba0c" width="80.280000" /> <img alt="page68image690171104" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3010a40b-c68f-407d-aaf8-5c2bf6de56a7" width="80.400000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 15 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 69"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">be dismissed. The Landlord shall advise the Office of the Special Civil Part in writing within 30 days of any alleged breach by the tenant. If the landlord does not notify the court, the case shall be dismissed automatically [</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">insert date</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">].</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Date:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Landlord’s Attorney Tenant’s Attorney Landlord Tenant</span></p></div></div><img alt="page69image1065197664" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fbe83c0f-4ac7-4482-b2d4-78e618a4019b" width="108.000000" /> <img alt="page69image1065197952" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2edb5108-9e92-4c95-8ae2-cfbda4d99d2a" width="243.000000" /> <img alt="page69image1065198240" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c9ff6b14-ca72-4a44-8ae5-f77d81861367" width="243.000000" /><img alt="page69image1065198528" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/736d7f51-fa71-4c74-bd19-6b3a250df9d8" width="243.000000" /> <img alt="page69image1065198816" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a4fcee63-939d-41c3-b051-c9df0bd1af46" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">J.S.C.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page69image1065200480" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1a8a6b78-7683-4bff-8b31-c7b0d8cc12b1" width="243.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Note: The Certification by Landlord and the Certification of Landlord’s Attorney (if the Landlord has an attorney) are attached hereto.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">Effective 09/01/2021, CN 10514</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 14pt;">- 16 -</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 70"><img alt="page70image1065123152" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4ef1e3a5-663e-4c74-b75f-53d7f7e75432" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">More than one in three households in New Jersey involve a landlord tenant relationship. In rented premises, as in owned homes, housing security is critically important to the resident and the surrounding community. At the same time, rental property owners must be able to meet their obligations, both to </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">retain_ </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">the property and to keep it as available housing for renters. In light of these significant needs, a court system in the pursuit of equitable justice must support processes that uphold and balance the rights and responsibilities of both landlords and tenants.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">To that end, the Supreme Court in this Order institutes a number of steps to reformtheresidentiallandlordtenantprocessinNewJersey. Amongotherkey reforms, the Court commits to conduct landlord tenant proceedings in a primarily remote format, with the Judiciary to provide on-site technology as necessary to enable participation, and to accommodate in-person proceedings in limited appropriate circumstances. The Court also establishes a package ofnew pleadings, revised processes, and pretrial events that will support a more robust and transparentrecord. Thesestepswillenableearlyidentificationofissues, differentiated management of cases, and opportunities for parties to connect with rental assistance and legal assistance resources and to resolve disputes without trial. Taken together, the provisions ofthis Order will support greater equity for both tenants and landlords.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 71"><img alt="page71image696459936" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/edd01bf0-8011-4162-91c8-a82aacc80484" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">The Court's updates to landlord tenant processes occur against the backdrop </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the COVID-19 pandemic and a moratorium on residential evictions. The Judiciary already has taken a number </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">steps to address the more than 56,500 landlord tenant cases that have remained pending during the public health emergency, and the even greater number </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">cases expected to be filed in the coming year. Most recently, the Court in its July 1, 2021 Order authorized mandatory settlement conferences as an interim measure to advance resolution </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">certain cases filed during or otherwise affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Court's July 1, 2021 Order also announced the resumption </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">residential landlord tenant trials as </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">September 1, 2021, which date may need to be adjusted in light </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">legislation currently awaiting action by the Governor and ongoing collaboration with the Department </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">o f </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Community Affairs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Informed by the Report and Recommendations </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant ("Special Committee") and the public comments submitted in response to that Report, the Court in this Order announces revisions to court processes for residential landlord tenant cases. These prospective changes, effective September 1, 2021 align with and implement the Court's actions as reflected in its July 12, 2021 Administrative Determinations on the Special Committee's Report and Recommendations. The Court's Administrative Determinations and the provisions </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">this Order do not affect the processes for</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">2</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 72"><img alt="page72image698404784" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bf7baf29-059e-4827-8f4e-a61230a692f0" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">mandatory settlement conferences as set forth in the Court's July </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">1, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">2021 Order. Aspects ofthose mandatory settlement conferences may need to be adjusted in light of legislation currently awaiting action by the Governor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">As reflected in the Court's Administrative Determinations, the Court by separate July 12, 2021 Order has amended certain Court Rules and Appendices to be effective September </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">1, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Accordingly, and operating in tandem with the related amendments to the Rules of Court, IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to N.J. Const., Art. VI, sec. 2, par. 3, the provisions of Parts IV and VI of the Rules of Court, and any other applicable rules, are relaxed and supplemented effective September </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">1, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">2021 and until further order, as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">In addition to other required pleadings, landlords shall file a Landlord Case Information Statement in a form promulgated by the Administrative Director of the Courts ("Administrative Director").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">a. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">For new filings, the Landlord Case Information Statement shall be filed with the complaint.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">b. For pending cases, the Landlord Case Information Statement shall be filed five days before the date of any mandatory conference as scheduled by the court.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">3</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 73"><img alt="page73image889349600" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f2396fab-91ec-46a7-b123-209f11dab393" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol start="2"><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Landlords also shall file a copy ofthe lease (or, ifthe lease exceeds </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">10 </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">pages, the relevant provisions ofthe lease); the registration statement, if applicable; and a certification ofthe landlord's lease and registration statement in a form to be promulgated by the Administrative Director.</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In addition to the lease, registration statement, and certification, landlords shall submit a copy ofthe rent control statement if requested by the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All required documents (lease, registration statement, and rent control statement if requested by the court) shall be filed five days before the required conference.</span></p></li></ol></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tenants shall file a Tenant Case Information Statement in a form promulgated by the Administrative Director. For both pending cases and new filings, the Tenant Case Information Statement shall be filed five days before the date of any mandatory conference as scheduled by the court.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The courts shall provide written information about landlord tenant procedurestobothparties~ Suchinformationshallalsobepostedonthe Judiciary' s public webpage.</span></p></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">4</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 74"><img alt="page74image683002752" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/34388218-7db9-4953-869b-a15c9fc81190" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol start="5"><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Courtsshallconductadditional,early,enhancedreviewofcasesthat involve public housing, other subsidized housing, and holdover causes of action.</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If any deficiency is identified during such review, written notice shall be issued to the landlord.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The landlord shall have an opportunity to cure such deficiency.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Failure to cure may result in dismissal.</span></p></li></ol></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Landlord tenant proceedings, including conferences and trials, will be</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">conducted primarily in a remote format. As necessary, courts will provide on-site technology resources to support the parties' participation. Judges will have discretion to schedule in-person proceedings based on the individual circumstances ofa case.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All residential landlord tenant cases will be scheduled for a single mandatory conference before the trial date, for purposes of case management and, if applicable, settlement.</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-latin;"><li style="font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Such mandatory conferences will be conducted by trained staff, including Landlord Tenant Legal Specialists, consistent with the provisions ofthe Court's June 3, 2021 Order.</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 14pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ifthe case is not resolved at the conference, the case will be scheduled for trial.</span></p></li></ol></li></ol></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 75"><img alt="page75image682793952" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/160ef680-c83e-4f09-95fd-bf51f29f11ff" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol start="8"><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Courts will provide information about trial processes to both parties, which will explain the consequences for failure to appear for trial.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The court will conduct a settlement conference on the trial date.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">10. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16pt;">If</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the landlord does not appear for the trial date, the case will be</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">dismissed.<br />11. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16pt;">If</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the tenant does not appear for the trial date, default will be entered by</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the clerk. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16pt;">I f </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the landlord establishes entitlement to relief, the court will</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">enter default judgment.<br />12. Courts shall issue written judgments for possession in a form</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">promulgatedbytheAdministrativeDirector. Suchwrittenjudgments shall be issued at the conclusion </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">trial, in instances </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">default judgment, upon consent, and after breach </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">a settlement agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">13.Landlords shall submit a written Request for Warrant </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Removal in a form promulgated by the Administrative Director.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">14.Except as set forth in this Order or other Orders </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">the Court, existing landlord tenant processes shall continue.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">6</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 76"><div class="section"><img alt="page76image683182320" height="792.000000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2c8465ec-e831-4a1d-a2f1-afcd8781dae9" width="612.000000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">15.The Administrative Director is authorized to take such further action as is necessary to support and implement the provisions </span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">of </span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">this Order.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Dated: July 14, 2021</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">7</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">For the Court,</span></p><p><span style="color: #4b5ec8; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: 700;">5l </span><span style="color: #4b5ec8; font-family: HiddenHorzOCR; font-size: 13pt;">~ </span><span style="color: #4b5ec8; font-family: HiddenHorzOCR; font-size: 15pt;">~ </span><span style="color: #1d1c1c; font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Chief Justice</span></p></div></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-41551591322201420712021-07-03T17:45:00.004-04:002021-07-03T17:45:33.284-04:00Court gives deadbeat tenants more delay time and continues to bar evictions LANDLORD TENANT - INTERIM PROCESS FOR MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCES NOTICE TO THE BAR AND PUBLIC <p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Court gives deadbeat tenants more delay time and continues to bar evictions</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> LANDLORD TENANT </span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">- </span><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">INTERIM </span></b><b><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">PROCESS FOR MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCES NOTICE TO THE BAR AND PUBLIC </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Supreme Court has authorized mandatory settlement conferences in residential landlord tenant matters</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">This interim step is effective immediately pending further Court action on the Report and Recommendations of the Judiciary Special Committee on Landlord Tenant ("Special Committee"). </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> All vicinages will </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">schedule </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">mandatory settlement conferences for pending landlord tenant cases. As set forth in the Court's attached July 1, 2021 Order, priority will be given to the nearly 14</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">,</span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">000 landlord tenant cases that have been pending for more than one year or in which more than 12 months of</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> rent </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">is claimed to be due</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Residential evictions </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">remain </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">suspended pursuant to the Governor</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">' </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">s </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Executive </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Order 106 as continued by legislation</span><span style="color: #474747; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">. </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">The Court</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">'</span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">s authorization of mandatory settlement conferences does not affect commercial </span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">landlord </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">tenant proceedings, which have resumed pursuant to the Court</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">' </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">s </span><span style="color: #1e56ad; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">June 2, 2021 </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Order. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1e56ad; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Information </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">about rental assistance and legal assistance for tenants and landlords affected by the </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">COVID</span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">-19 </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">pandemic is posted on the Judiciary</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">'</span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">s website. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Questions about this notice or the Court</span><span style="color: #474747; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">'</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">s </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">July 1, 2021 Order ma</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">y </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">be directed to the Civil Practice Division of the </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Administrative </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Office of the Courts at </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">(609) </span><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">815-2900</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">x54900. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Dated: July 1, 2021 </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY ORDER</span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Supreme Court authorized the temporary suspension of landlord tenant trials since March 16, 2020, subject to narrow exceptions as set forth in the Court’s <span style="color: #0560bf;">July 14, 2020 </span>and <span style="color: #0560bf;">February 5, 2021 </span>Orders. The Court in its <span style="color: #0560bf;">June 2, 2021 </span>Order authorized the resumption of commercial landlord tenant trials. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Separate from the Court’s action, Executive Order 106 (issued March 19, 2020) suspended residential evictions for two months after the conclusion of the COVID-19 public health emergency or state of emergency, subject to narrow exceptions “in the interest of justice.” Pursuant to Executive Order 244 (issued June 4, 2021) and L. 2021 c.103, the state of the emergency continues, and the provisions of EO 106 may continue through December 31, 2021. In residential matters, courts throughout New Jersey are conducting trials in limited emergency circumstances and consistent with the general moratorium on residential evictions. The Judiciary now is preparing to resume trials in residential landlord tenant cases. Residential evictions, however, will not occur until authorized by the Executive Branch. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Court in its <span style="color: #0560bf;">June 11, 2020 </span>Fourth Omnibus Order authorized courts to schedule conferences in landlord tenant cases, including to conduct settlement negotiations in an effort to resolve cases without trial. Such settlement conferences have been scheduled and conducted on a voluntary basis statewide. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> The Court in its <span style="color: #0560bf;">September 30, 2020 </span>Order relaxed and supplemented Rule 1:40-12(a)(4) (“Special Civil Part Settlors”) so as to expand the pool of settlors to conduct landlord tenant settlement conferences. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Voluntary participation in settlement efforts has been limited. As a result, almost 14,000 landlord tenant cases have been pending for more than one year. Tens of thousands of additional cases also involve prolonged periods of nonpayment of rent. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that effective immediately and until further order: </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">1. Courts statewide will schedule mandatory settlement conferences in landlord tenant cases. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">a. Mandatory settlement conferences will primarily be conducted in a remote format. As necessary, courts will provide on-site technology resources to support participation. Judges also will have discretion to schedule mandatory in-person conferences based on the individual circumstances of a case. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">b. Courts will prioritize the oldest pending cases with the most unpaid rent and any newly filed cases where more than 12 months’ rent is due and owing. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">2. Parties will be required to appear at the mandatory settlement conference. The landlord should submit the lease and registration statement (if applicable) five days before the settlement conference. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Courtswillprovidenoticeoftheconsequencesforfailuretoappear at the mandatory settlement conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">If the landlord does not appear, the case will be dismissed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Ifthetenantdoesnotappear,defaultwillbeenteredbytheclerk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">If the landlord is prepared to proceed, the court will hold a proof hearing. If the landlord is not prepared, a proof hearing will be held within 10 days of the mandatory settlement conference date. If the landlord establishes entitlement to relief, the court will enter default judgment. Pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Order 106 as continued via statute, an eviction after default judgment cannot proceed until the end of the moratorium on residential evictions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">If both parties appear: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-text-indent-alt: -.25in; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">The settlor will assist the parties in working out an agreement, which will be reduced to writing, placed on the record, and distributed to the parties; or <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-text-indent-alt: -.25in; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">If no settlement is reached, the matter will be scheduled for trial. Those trials will begin September 1, 2021. The Judiciary will continue to collaborate with the Department of Community Affairs regarding available rental assistance programs as well as necessary steps that may be required by legislation currently awaiting action by the Governor as of the date of this Order. The target date of September 1, 2021 may need to be adjusted in light of that legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">3. In furtherance of the above provisions, pursuant to N.J. Const., Art. VI, sec. 2, par. 3, the following rules are relaxed as follows: </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">a. Rule6:6-2(“EntryofDefaultandAutomaticVacationThereof”) so as to provide that in landlord tenant actions the clerk shall enter the default of a party who has failed to appear at the time fixed for trial or other mandatory court event, provided that the party has been noticed that failure to appear for such mandatory court event shall result in the entry of default; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Rule 6:6-3(b) ("Entry by the Clerk; Judgment for Possession") so as to provide that judgment for possession may be entered by the clerk on affidavit or on proof hearing if the defendant fails to appear, plead or otherwise defend, and is not a minor or mentally incapacitated person, except where the landlord acquired title from the tenant or has given the tenant an option to purchase the property; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Rule 6:6-4 ("Consent Judgments for Possession and Stipulations of Settlement") so as to provide that a settlement agreement that provides for entry of judgment for possession against an unrepresented, residential tenant must be written, signed by the parties or placed on the record in lieu of signature, and reviewed and approved by the court; and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in left .75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: "Geneva",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1e1e21; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Such other rules as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Order. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-29904456831420820232021-05-13T22:15:00.001-04:002021-05-13T22:15:02.224-04:00Email with arbitration notice was sufficient here to require arbitration JASICKI v. MORGANSTANLEY SMITHBARNEY<p>Email with arbitration notice was sufficient here to require arbitration <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">ANNA JASICKI, Plaintiff-Appellant,</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">MORGANSTANLEY SMITHBARNEY LLC, MORGAN STANLEY WEALTH MANAGEMENT d/b/a MORGAN STANLEY, and JAMES LLOYD,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendants-Respondents. ____________________________</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION<br />DOCKET NO. A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Argued January 5, 2021 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Decided </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">January 19, 2021</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Before Judges Mawla and Natali.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Monmouth County, Docket No. L-1686-19.</span></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PER CURIAM</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff Anna Jasicki appeals from a December 5, 2019 order dismissing</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">her complaint against defendants Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management d/b/a Morgan Stanley, and James Lloyd, and compelling arbitration. We affirm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff was employed at Morgan Stanley beginning in 2011. In May 2019, she filed a three-count complaint in the Law Division alleging disparate treatment and hostile work environment, sexual harassment and discrimination, and retaliation pursuant to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -49. The complaint alleged plaintiff's supervisor, Lloyd, had committed various acts of sexual harassment and when she rejected his advances, he retaliated against her. The complaint also alleged when plaintiff complained about Lloyd's conduct to Morgan Stanley, it protected Lloyd and retaliated against her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendants moved to compel arbitration, alleging plaintiff waived her right to prosecute her claims in court because she agreed to arbitration. Specifically, defendants argued that on September 2, 2015 at 3:19 p.m., Morgan</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Stanley's human resources email account sent an email to plaintiff's work email with the subject line, "Expansion of CARE</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Arbitration Program." The body of the email read:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Expansion of CARE Arbitration Program September 2, 2015</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">More than [ten] years ago, Morgan Stanley launched CARE . . . the [f]irm's internal employee dispute resolution program. CARE provides employees with a quick and neutral way to raise and address workplace concerns. By combining internal (informal resolution) and external (mediation and arbitration) dispute resolution mechanisms, CARE promotes open and honest communication, increases mutual respect, and resolves employment-related concerns swiftly, fairly[,] and economically.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Current registered employees are required to arbitrate most workplace claims under existing FINRA [Financial Industry Regulatory Authority] rules, and given the success of the CARE program, Morgan Stanley is announcing the expansion of CARE and modifications to related [f]irm policies and programs to extend arbitration obligations for all U[.]S[.] employees</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">registered and non-registered. Effective October 2, 2015, arbitration under the CARE Arbitration Program will be mandatory for all employees in the U.S., and all covered claims between the [f]irm and employees will be resolved through final and binding arbitration on a non-class, non-collective and non-representative action basis as more fully described in the Arbitration Agreement and CARE Guidebook. Please review the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">CARE stands for Convenient Access to Resolutions for Employees. 3</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image13888" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e1d95531-4db1-4071-8bc0-3e108c7547b1" width="144.020000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Arbitration Agreement and the CARE Guidebook. It is important that you read and understand the Arbitration Agreement and the CARE Guidebook as they describe the terms, features[,] and details of this program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Next Steps</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By continuing your employment with Morgan Stanley, you accept and agree to, and will be covered and bound by the terms of the Arbitration Agreement and the arbitration provisions of the CARE Guidebook, unless you elect to opt out of the CARE Arbitration Program by completing, signing and submitting an effective CARE Arbitration Program Opt-Out Form by October 2, 2015 . . . . If you remain employed and do not timely complete, sign and submit an effective CARE Arbitration Program Opt-Out Form, the [f]irm's records will reflect that you have consented and agreed to the terms of the Arbitration Agreement and the arbitration provisions of the CARE Guidebook. You will not have an opportunity to opt out at a later date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Importantly, should you choose to opt out of the Arbitration Agreement and CARE Arbitration Program, you will continue to be bound by the terms of any other arbitration agreement or obligation applicable to you. Your decision to opt out of the Arbitration Agreement and the CARE Arbitration Program will not adversely affect your employment status with the [f]irm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">If you have questions about the Arbitration Agreement or the arbitration provisions in the CARE Guidebook, email carebox@morganstanley.com.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendants argued plaintiff agreed to arbitration because she did not opt- out of the CARE Arbitration Program, her email did not send an out-of-the-</span></p></div></div><img alt="page4image14736" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/24d60b2b-54bc-4e95-887a-3e2c9441f154" width="133.940000" /><img alt="page4image14896" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6e986904-c4ab-41f5-9b00-e69efdb5e521" width="107.040000" /><img alt="page4image15056" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/eeb76ad1-50a2-4f04-93a5-776f18c7fc01" width="250.610000" /><img alt="page4image15216" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d2720bd1-b8a8-456f-9553-cd2559a90a63" width="174.740000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">office reply when it received the CARE email, and plaintiff sent emails on September 2, 2015, around the time she received the CARE email, namely, at 2:41 p.m., 2:44 p.m., 3:30 p.m., and 4:29 p.m. In support of their motion, defendants filed a certification from the Morgan Stanley Executive Director and Global Head of End User Technology Operations, in which he explained that he "reviewed the metadata for the Jasicki CARE Email, which show that the Jasicki CARE Email was marked as 'read' in [plaintiff's] mailbox." He further certified as follows:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Based on my review of Firm records, I can confirm that [plaintiff's] Exchange mailbox was working properly, operational and in use by [plaintiff] on September 2, 2015. Any of the following actions would have caused the Jasicki CARE Email to be marked as "read":</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">a. [Plaintiff] selected the Jasicki CARE Email and then opened the Jasicki CARE Email for review;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">b. [Plainiff] selected the Jasicki CARE Email, which was displayed in the reading pane;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">c. [Plaintiff] selected the Jasicki CARE Email, and then made a selection to mark the Jasicki CARE Email as "Read"; or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">d. [Plaintiff] set up a rule within her Exchange mailbox to automatically mark emails as "read." Morgan Stanley located and collected a snapshot of [plaintiff's]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">mailbox, which . . . shows that there are a number of emails [plaintiff] received on September 2, 2015 that are not marked "read." That fact indicates that [plaintiff] did not have a rule set up within her Exchange mailbox to automatically mark emails as "read" on that date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's opposition to the motion argued there was no evidence she agreed to the CARE Arbitration Program and the mere receipt of an email was not enough to compel her to arbitrate her claims. She argued the disclaimers within the email rendered the agreement to arbitrate illusory and the email's reference to CARE as a part of Morgan Stanley's policies did not create an express or implied contract to arbitrate. She asserted she did not knowingly or voluntarily waive her right to a jury trial.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The motion judge granted defendants' motion. She noted there was no dispute plaintiff did not return the opt-out form and continued her employment past the October 2 deadline. The judge rejected plaintiff's argument the arbitration agreement was illusory noting the disclaimer language referred only to the "at-will employment relationship and makes clear that the agreement to arbitrate does not affect the at-will employment status." The judge further stated:</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It is clear to the [c]ourt that . . . plaintiff received the e-mail. The e-mail was acknowledged in some form by having been marked as read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The [c]ourt is satisfied with the certifications submitted in support of the contention that the method by which an e-mail is marked as read requires some action on the part of the plaintiff, and . . . therefore, the [c]ourt as far as the question of whether the e-mail was actually received by the plaintiff is put aside . . . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The judge found there was an agreement to arbitrate, stating:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Reviewing the language of the e-mail in question here, the [c]ourt is satisfied that the e-mail clearly placed the plaintiff in this matter on notice, first that there was an expansion of the CARE arbitration program. On its face, the e-mail indicates that continued employment would certainly . . . constitute agreement to the arbitration agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The face of the e-mail references the arbitration agreement. Although it does not provide the actual terms of the arbitration agreement, it does highlight the fact that the plaintiff is to review the arbitration agreement as well as review the CARE guidebook.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">It indicates that it is important that the employee read and understand the arbitration agreement, and then it . . . actually . . . labels what the next steps would be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">And there, it indicates again that continued employment with Morgan Stanley would constitute an agreement to be bound by the terms of the agreement, and then it indicates that the employee can select to opt out by signing and submitting an arbitration opt-out form.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">7</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">That creates a second step, a second level of assent. Not only does the employee have to continue employment, but the employee also must select not to sign an opt-out form.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">And that satisfies the [c]ourt that that provides sufficient evidence . . . that the plaintiff assented and agreed to the terms of that arbitration agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The plaintiff did not quarrel with the general principle that a failure to read the terms of the contract was not a defense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal, plaintiff argues there was no agreement to arbitrate because she did not execute an agreement and the motion judge erred by relying on metadata which noted the CARE email was marked as read to conclude plaintiff had agreed to arbitration. Plaintiff also argues the opt-out provision in the CARE email did not constitute assent to arbitrate her claims.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Our law strongly prefers the enforcement of arbitration agreements because "arbitration is [the] favored method of resolving disputes." Garfinkel v. Morristown Obstetrics & Gynecology Assocs., P.A., 168 N.J. 124, 131 (2001). Our review of the validity of an arbitration agreement and the legal determinations made by the trial court is de novo. Morgan v. Sanford Brown Inst., 225 N.J. 289, 302-03 (2016).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In determining whether parties have waived their right to resolution of their dispute before a court in favor of arbitration, we "cannot subject an</span></p></div></div><img alt="page8image12704" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c56dcee3-bba0-4796-9fc7-d6687cde6c71" width="56.280000" /><img alt="page8image12864" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ae665752-77a5-45b5-9607-583fcce0c916" width="341.810000" /><img alt="page8image13024" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c124ed1c-ccc3-498e-afed-3aae7a190851" width="157.460000" /><img alt="page8image13184" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3869e7e1-52e2-4371-a9e9-c6eff0296fd4" width="26.040000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">8</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 9"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">arbitration agreement to more burdensome requirements than those governing the formation of other contracts." Leodori v. Cigna Corp., 175 N.J. 293, 302 (2003). An arbitration "provision must reflect that an employee has agreed clearly and unambiguously to arbitrate the disputed claim. Generally, we determine a written agreement's validity by considering the intentions of the parties as reflected in the four corners of the written instrument." Ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Employers and employees "may agree to arbitrate their disputes by referring generally to an arbitration policy contained in a separate writing, provided that the policy itself clearly reflects the employee's knowing and voluntary waiver of rights." Id. at 308. "'[A]n e-mail, properly couched, can be an appropriate medium for forming an arbitration agreement.'" Jaworski v. Ernst & Young, 441 N.J. Super. 464, 474 n.3 (App. Div. 2015) (quoting Campbell v. Gen. Dynamics Gov't Sys. Corp., 407 F.3d 546, 555-56 (1st Cir. 2005)).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">"'[T]o enforce a waiver-of-rights provision[,] . . . the [c]ourt requires some concrete manifestation of the employee's intent as reflected in the text of the agreement itself.'" Leodori, 175 N.J. at 299 (quoting Garfinkel, 168 N.J. at 135). "Although not strictly required, a party's signature to an agreement is the customary and perhaps surest indication of assent." Leodori at 306-07. In the absence of a signature, a court should "not assume that employees intend to</span></p></div></div><img alt="page9image11880" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/62616710-b9dc-4f52-a90e-c6c36a835c52" width="140.420000" /><img alt="page9image12040" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/12a51377-c857-49ba-98e2-b8927fd08bef" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page9image12200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dbc90463-3fe2-4a2a-aba5-317d87fc8ac5" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page9image12360" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/8bd95002-da9b-4484-af90-f47da06c0852" width="100.100000" /><img alt="page9image12520" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ab9acf06-0f99-4dd9-ad7f-995548be619f" width="54.960000" /><img alt="page9image12680" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c694e3c9-0c53-4d37-9b1c-c3c2047f6e26" width="71.880000" /><img alt="page9image12840" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7e8d552f-c491-492f-878b-3cbfc478d006" width="192.500000" /><img alt="page9image13000" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e1533f48-7647-4e72-841e-5aa4a5615742" width="46.584000" /><img alt="page9image13160" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a777bac6-5eb0-4237-beca-3d121d6e1250" width="56.520000" /><img alt="page9image13320" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cc0d9c81-36e9-4546-bbb1-08cb682b15a4" width="46.440000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">9</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 10"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">waive [statutory] rights unless their agreements so provide in unambiguous terms." Id. at 301 (alteration in original) (quoting Garfinkel, 168 N.J. at 135). "[V]alid waiver[s] result[] only from an explicit, affirmative agreement that unmistakably reflects the employee's assent." Leodori at 303. Knowledge of the company's use of an arbitration program is not enough to signify intent to waive rights. Id. at 306. However, employers need not "negotiate individual agreements with their entire workforce to implement a companywide arbitration policy." Id. at 307. Rather, the policy may be effectuated through a signature or other explicit waiver of rights. Ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">"As a general rule, one who does not choose to read a contract before signing it cannot later relieve himself of its burdens. The onus [is] on plaintiff to obtain a copy of the contract in a timely manner to ascertain what rights it waived by beginning the arbitration process." Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc., 244 N.J. 30, 54 (2020) (internal quotations omitted) (quoting Riverside Chiropractic Grp. v. Mercury Ins. Co., 404 N.J. Super. 228, 238 (App. Div. 2008)).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In Skuse, our Supreme Court addressed the dissemination of an arbitration agreement in a context similar to the one presented here. There, Pfizer's human resources department emailed all employees announcing and linking its five- page Arbitration and Class Waiver Agreement. 244 N.J. at 38. The email stated,</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image11880" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bdc710f8-ea6a-4f74-9344-c1aa48ea3c89" width="15.960000" /><img alt="page10image12040" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e343bd93-318f-49da-ab0b-5877a61ace59" width="56.280000" /><img alt="page10image12200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1c9bb1d7-5861-49a9-a053-e22e77129afd" width="46.560000" /><img alt="page10image12360" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/076e4f76-e47f-4b1c-83e9-06f8936cf35e" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page10image12520" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5697ba08-d914-4c93-aad5-7f0fae113dd0" width="16.200000" /><img alt="page10image12680" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f50530ee-9660-42aa-9d9b-af4a4a81aa61" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page10image12840" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7dd4e380-6abe-4b3a-822e-9f0d54847f5e" width="117.740000" /><img alt="page10image13000" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ab46c8c4-e8a0-48b9-b61c-8f3e231c768c" width="179.420000" /><img alt="page10image13160" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f23e9ce9-f125-4607-958e-3003f647c7c7" width="100.560000" /><img alt="page10image13320" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/92120304-d4ed-43bb-899d-11b7555af1b6" width="35.040000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">10</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 11"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">"both [employees] and Pfizer agree that arbitration will replace state and federal courts as the place where certain employment disputes are ultimately decided, andthatarbitratorswillresolvethedisputes,ratherthanjudgesorjuries." Id.at 39 (internal citations omitted). Under the frequently asked questions (FAQs) section in the linked document, it stated employees must agree to the arbitration agreement if they wish to continue their employment, continuation of employment for sixty days constituted a contractual agreement, and employees should consult their own attorney for legal questions. Ibid. In bold, the email stated:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">You understand that your acknowledgement of this [a]greement is not required for the [a]greement to be enforced. If you begin or continue working for the [c]ompany sixty . . . days after receipt of this [a]greement, even without acknowledging this [a]greement, this [a]greement will be effective, and you will be deemed to have consented to, ratified and accepted this [a]greement through your acceptance of and/or continued employment with the [c]ompany.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Ibid.]<br />The same day it sent the email, Pfizer sent a second email containing an</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">"assigned . . . activity" in the company's "module-based training program" on the agreement, indicating the training was important because the agreement was</span></p></div></div><img alt="page11image10928" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7dffb2c4-74de-45e1-a96e-793beced9795" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page11image11088" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/75dfa807-12d9-4b39-ad85-e92f33c2e414" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page11image11248" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a26a866e-1337-40a9-9f92-91cb08672da8" width="27.480000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">11</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 12"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">a "condition of [their] employment." Id. at 40. The due date listed was the same as the effective date of the agreement. Ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The training module included four slides. The first slide stated: "As a condition of your employment with Pfizer, you and Pfizer agree to individual arbitration as the exclusive means of resolving certain disputes relating to your employment." Ibid. The second stated: "Click the 'Resources' tab in the upper- right corner to review the Agreement [and] . . . print the Agreement and retain for your records." Ibid. The third stated:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I understand that I must agree to the Mutual Arbitration and Class Waiver Agreement as a condition of my employment. Even if I do not click here, if I begin or continue working for the Company sixty . . . days after receipt of this Agreement, even without acknowledging this Agreement, this Agreement will be effective, and I will be deemed to have consented to, ratified and accepted this Agreement through my acceptance of and/or continued employment with the Company.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Id. at 41.]<br />Below this statement, "a box with an arrow pointing upward to that language instructed the employee to 'CLICK HERE to acknowledge.'" Ibid. The fourth slide thanked the employee for "reviewing" the agreement and provided an email for questions. Ibid.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image11960" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/59cceec7-ec12-4db6-8308-93e57430403c" width="16.200000" /><img alt="page12image12120" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d4bccd72-e6c7-461f-b605-7a0545b1fce3" width="27.624000" /><img alt="page12image12280" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/83c6ed3c-2851-4657-a6e4-9ec654052697" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page12image12440" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3fa25ee7-d7f5-4738-b985-28f1bb6c76ac" width="27.624000" /><img alt="page12image12600" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4e6b00aa-ae77-4f92-9945-71f59175bb6f" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page12image12760" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fd042ad6-6b37-49cd-a208-9ad2f62c3824" width="27.744000" /><img alt="page12image12920" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1bc8b6ff-4b66-4fe3-a44b-f1a51ba445e1" width="27.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">12</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 13"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Skuse was an active employee when Pfizer transmitted the emails and training module. Pfizer's records indicated she received all emails, and Pfizer sent her an email confirming she completed the training module approximately a month after receipt of the initial emails. Ibid. As a result, the trial court dismissed Skuse's employment discrimination complaint and compelled arbitration.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We reversed the trial court because we found the transmission of the arbitration agreement and training module by email was "'inadequate to substantiate an employee's knowing and unmistakable assent to arbitrate and waive his or her rights of access to the courts.'" Id. at 44. The Supreme Court noted our concerns that "employees who work in offices are inundated with incoming e-mails [and that we] took judicial notice that in order to deal with the volume of e-mails . . . they receive, people frequently skim (or scroll through without reading) written material sent to them digitally." Id. at 53 (internal quotations and citations omitted). The Court further noted that we "doubt[ed] . . . all . . . employees took the time to read the [a]greement linked to the module" because defendant utilized the term "assigning" the "training module . . . dilut[ing] the legal significance and necessary mutuality of the contractual process." Ibid. (internal quotations and citations omitted).</span></p></div></div><img alt="page13image11440" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/09473152-8550-4214-b6ad-84dbcc3f8905" width="27.720000" /><img alt="page13image11600" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/89902e30-2374-4519-82a7-1d1a8c2b2667" width="15.960000" /><img alt="page13image11760" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ec7313c4-9c42-44a5-ab78-79e654f12895" width="16.200000" /><img alt="page13image11920" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e5eed5cd-bd7e-4794-b724-03093d4464ca" width="27.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">13</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 14"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Notwithstanding these concerns, the Court reversed our decision and stated: "Even if Skuse were to contend that she did not review Pfizer's . . . e- mails and their attachments because of the volume of e-mails addressed to her[,] . . . her failure to review Pfizer's communications would not invalidate the [a]greement." Id. at 54. The Court concluded</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Pfizer's Agreement explained to Skuse in clear and unmistakable terms the rights that she would forego if she assented to arbitration by remaining employed . . . for sixty days. Although Pfizer's "training module" was not an optimal method of conveying to Skuse her employer's arbitration policy, Pfizer's . . . e-mails, the link to the Agreement contained in those e-mails, the "FAQs" page, and the summaries that appeared on the four pages collectively explained, with the clarity that our law requires, the terms of the Agreement to which Skuse agreed by virtue of her continued employment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Id. at 61.]<br />Here, similar to Skuse, plaintiff does not dispute that she received the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">CARE email. The email subject line and its body unmistakably pertained to the CARE Arbitration Program. Contrary to plaintiff's argument, the outcome in SkusedidnotturnonthemultiplicityofcommunicationssentbyPfizer. Rather, as the Skuse Court noted, an employee's failure to review the contents of an email does not invalidate an arbitration agreement. Moreover, arbitration was not unilaterally imposed; plaintiff had time to either opt out or, as in Skuse,</span></p></div></div><img alt="page14image12920" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6e3cdb06-a3f5-4e5d-b44e-e538bb7f0f2f" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page14image13080" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/30f40805-060f-4daf-8b7c-58082dd1bb5d" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page14image13240" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a5d2b773-a0ed-4024-81ab-7cd2819580c7" width="35.040000" /><img alt="page14image13400" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/50d306fb-61cd-4e03-9913-df128993e391" width="34.920000" /><img alt="page14image13560" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d181bc06-6ce6-49b6-a550-3106b5dddf7f" width="34.920000" /><img alt="page14image13720" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b8f4d187-c9de-4d7a-bf6d-3213a600a13e" width="35.040000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">14</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 15"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">assent to arbitration by continuing to work for Morgan Stanley. For these reasons, we reject plaintiff's argument this dispute centers on metadata or that defendants were required to prove the extent to which she read the CARE email, beyond presenting objective evidence that she received the email, in order to compel arbitration of plaintiff's claims.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Affirmed.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page15image3864" height="60.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7b397106-2a3a-49ca-9349-1412526dc344" width="124.800000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">15</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1629-19T1</span></p></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-45546852268928938272021-04-13T22:06:00.003-04:002021-04-13T22:06:53.359-04:00Sucessor liability examined 160 WEST BROADWAY ASSOCIATES, LP VS. 1 MEMORIAL DRIVE, LLC, ET AL. (L-4142-15, PASSAIC COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) (A-2454-18)<p>Sucessor liability examined <a href="https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/opinions/appellate/published/a2454-18.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0047b3; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline !important;">160 WEST BROADWAY ASSOCIATES, LP VS. 1 MEMORIAL DRIVE, LLC, ET AL. (L-4142-15, PASSAIC COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)</span></a><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">(A-2454-18)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Following a bench trial, the judge concluded defendant 1 Memorial Drive, LLC, was the successor of defendant Amma, Corp., and entered judgment in favor of plaintiff, Amma's landlord, for unpaid rent for the balance of the lease extension. The judge concluded exceptions to the general rule that a transferee is generally not liable for the debts of the transferor, <span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline !important;">see Woodrick v. Jack J. Burke Real Estate, Inc.,</span> 306 N.J. Super. 61, 72–73 (App. Div. 1997), applied, even though he found that the only asset Amma transferred was a trademarked name, Super Supermarket. The judge made no finding as to the actual value of the trademark, which 1 Memorial had been using for nearly one year and which several other supermarkets in New Jersey used. Nevertheless, using his personal knowledge of other businesses in the city, and their recognizable business names, the judge found successor liability.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Citing several cases from other jurisdictions and treatises, the court concluded that the transfer of all or substantially all of the predecessor entity's assets is a predicate to any finding of successor liability as to the successor entity. In this case, the substantial credible evidence supported a finding that the transfer of a generic trademark was of limited value, and plaintiff failed to prove that Amma transferred any, much less all or substantially all, of its assets to 1 Memorial. The court reversed and vacated the judgment.</p>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-45623429920530285042021-03-22T22:26:00.002-04:002021-03-22T22:26:12.198-04:00Leave to appeal complaint denied here after statute of limitations over JOHN DELLIGATTI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUMMIT OAKS HOSPITAL<p>Leave to appeal complaint denied here after statute of limitations over</p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">JOHN DELLIGATTI, Plaintiff-Appellant,</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUMMIT OAKS HOSPITAL, AHS HOSPITAL CORP./OVER- LOOK MEDICAL CENTER,</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">MEDICAL DEPOT, INC.,</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">2</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">BRIGGS MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION,</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and NOVA ORTHO-MED, INC.,</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">4</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendants, and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">INVACARE CORPORATION, Defendant-Respondent.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION<br />DOCKET NO. A-4374-18</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image8328" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e789d072-4216-4bbf-9e3c-38614bcbbdf4" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Improperly pled as Overlook Medical Center.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Improperly pled as Drive Medical Design and Manufacturing.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Improperly pled as Health Smart International.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Improperly pled as Nova Medical Products.</span></p></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><img alt="page2image400" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cbf13217-15c9-47bf-9ed0-5147e65af623" width="216.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Submitted February 3, 2021 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Decided February 23, 2021 Before Judges Whipple, Rose and Firko.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Union County, Docket No. L-0539-18.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.</span></p></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PER CURIAM<br />In this personal injury action, plaintiff John Delligatti appeals from an</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">April 26, 2019 Law Division order dismissing his second amended complaint against defendant Invacare Corporation pursuant to Rule 4:6-2(e) for failure to state a claim. When the action originally was filed, Invacare was not named in the complaint, which instead named five entities, and fictitious defendants under Rule 4:26-4. Following expiration of the two-year statute of limitations, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2, plaintiff learned Invacare's identity and was granted leave to file and serve a second amended complaint naming Invacare as a defendant. The motion judge found plaintiff did not exercise "due diligence" in identifying the fictitious defendants prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations and after</span></p></div></div><img alt="page2image10320" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/596a253a-a039-43a6-b2a5-794f313981db" width="27.720000" /><img alt="page2image10480" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/86bafddb-7ac3-435a-8731-9673155c38ab" width="27.720000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">he learned Invacare's identity. As such, the judge granted Invacare's motion to dismiss the second amended complaint. We affirm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp., 116 N.J. 739, 746 (1989), we summarize the pertinent facts chronologically to give context to plaintiff's efforts in ascertaining Invacare's identity. Plaintiff was hospitalized at Summit Oaks Hospital on February 10, 2016. The next day,</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">5 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">plaintiff fell while showering when the shower chair he was utilizing collapsed. Plaintiff sustained injuries requiring treatment at Overlook Medical Center.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On February 9, 2018 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">just prior to the expiration of the two-year limitations period </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">plaintiff filed a ten-count complaint against defendants Drive Medical Design and Manufacturing, Health Smart International, and Nova Medical Products (collectively, manufacturer defendants); Summit Oaks Hospital and Overlook Medical Center; and fictitious defendants denominated as John Does 1-5, Jane Does 1-5, ABC Corporation[s] 1-5, DEF Corporation[s] 1-5 and XYZ Corporation[s] 1-5. Relevant here, plaintiff asserted negligence</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">5 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In his merits brief and initial complaint, plaintiff avers the accident occurred on February 11, 2016. Plaintiff's amended complaints list that date and February 13, 2016 as the accident date. The discrepancy in the dates has no bearing on our decision.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image11200" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2684b63d-e4f6-4ff7-8926-10e30e7ba121" width="153.620000" /><img alt="page3image11360" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dcbe426f-efe8-423e-b547-597b63d83892" width="167.780000" /><img alt="page3image11520" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/98e3efcf-93a2-4d75-826d-eb7f55af49a1" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">3</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and strict liability claims against the manufacturer defendants and the ABC, DEF, and XYZ Corporations, contending they "designed, manufactured and/or distributed" the shower chair that caused his accident.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On June 20, 2018, in its responses to Nova Medical's discovery demands, Summit Oaks identified Invacare as the manufacturer of the "Care Guard shower chairs" utilized at its facility. Eight days later, plaintiff filed his first amended complaint against the same entities and fictitious parties but did not name Invacare as a defendant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Thereafter, Summit Oaks moved to dismiss plaintiff's complaint for failing to respond to discovery demands. In conjunction with his January 22, 2019 opposition to Summit Oaks's motion, plaintiff moved for leave to add Invacare as an additional party to his lawsuit. The accompanying certification of plaintiff's attorney quoted Summit Oaks's response to Nova Medical naming Invacare, without including the date of the disclosure. Plaintiff's counsel generally mentioned that information "was brought to [his] attention recently during discussions and correspondence with [counsel for Summit Oaks]." On January 25, 2019, the trial court granted both motions. On the same day, plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his claims against Health Smart and Drive Medical.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On February 7, 2019, plaintiff filed his second-amended complaint naming the same entities and Invacare as defendants.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">6 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On March 1, 2019, the trial court granted Nova Medical's motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint against that entity for failing to provide discovery.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Thereafter, Invacare moved to dismiss plaintiff's second amended complaint, claiming plaintiff's claims were time-barred under the statute of limitations. During oral argument on April 26, 2019, Invacare contended plaintiff failed to exercise due diligence in ascertaining Invacare's identity before filing his complaint and "waited another full seven months before seeking to join Invacare to this lawsuit." Accordingly, defendant contended plaintiff was not entitled to the protections of the fictitious party rule.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's counsel countered that dismissal would infringe upon the "general precept" that his client was entitled to his "fair day in court." Plaintiff's counsel told the judge he "requested [plaintiff']s medical records," but "was unable to ascertain the identity of the chair [manufacturer]." But plaintiff's counsel acknowledged he never requested that information from Summit Oaks before he filed plaintiff's initial complaint. Instead, plaintiff's counsel located</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">6 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">For reasons that are unclear from the record, plaintiff filed in the trial court what purports to be an identical copy of his second amended complaint on February 13, 2019.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page5image11384" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/05612e02-842d-41de-bca8-1a3927c7feb7" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">the names of the manufacturer defendants through an internet search and named those entities because they were "three major local healthcare product manufacturers."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">As to why it took seven months after learning Invacare's identity to move to amend his complaint, plaintiff's counsel disclosed that his office "was going through some staffing changes" and he had "a high volume of cases." Conceding he had "no excuse that it took seven months," counsel argued "the client shouldn't be made to suffer for that." Plaintiff's counsel further asserted Invacare was not prejudiced here, where "no witnesses . . . have died or are otherwise unavailable."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Following argument, the motion judge rendered a cogent oral decision from the bench, granting Invacare's motion. In reaching his decision, the judge found defendant failed to exercise due diligence prior to filing his initial complaint and after he learned of Invacare's identity. Citing our decision in Baez v. Paulo, 453 N.J. Super. 422 (App. Div. 2018), the judge determined plaintiff failed to undertake any steps to ascertain the identity of the manufacturer prior to filing his initial complaint and waited seven months after Summit Oaks disclosed Invacare's identity in discovery. Recognizing he need not reach the issue as to whether Invacare was prejudiced by plaintiff's delay,</span></p></div></div><img alt="page6image11208" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4d498493-4597-4083-a80a-d78470d68ba7" width="85.560000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">the judge nonetheless determined there existed "great prejudice" here, where the chair no longer exists and the circumstances under which it was broken are unknown. This appeal followed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal, plaintiff reprises the arguments he asserted before the motion judge. In a multi-part point heading, he claims he satisfied the mandates of the fictitious pleading rule because he "was diligent in his efforts to discover Inva[c]are's true identity as the manufacturer of the shower chair"; "Invacare will not suffer undue prejudice by the delay in its inclusion to the lawsuit"; and "courts may relax rules of procedure when rigid application would time bar an otherwise meritorious claim." Plaintiff's contentions are unavailing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We review de novo the trial court's decision on a motion to dismiss a complaint as barred by the statute of limitations. See Estate of Hainthaler v. Zurich Commercial Ins., 387 N.J. Super. 318, 325 (App. Div. 2006); see also Templo Fuente De Vida Corp. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburg, 224 N.J. 189, 199 (2016) (expressing the well-settled principle that reviewing courts afford no special deference to the legal determinations of the trial court when no issue of fact exists). Accordingly, the trial court's "interpretation of the law and the legal consequences that flow from established facts are not entitled to any</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image11456" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a31a1009-d559-4c73-a083-42b8b10bb2a7" width="21.120000" /><img alt="page7image11616" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a03fb495-0967-4dd1-ad07-47aca434a1a5" width="136.820000" /><img alt="page7image11776" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bdcf1c43-04d6-419a-a9a6-fbcb21451d20" width="143.060000" /><img alt="page7image11936" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/83488bf3-3c41-45ca-ab82-4b9dc7ecc111" width="47.400000" /><img alt="page7image12096" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/87630bd2-9a82-4fb5-b09b-2e67c0c0b45d" width="411.910000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">7</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">special deference." Manalapan Realty, L.P. v. Twp. Comm. of Manalapan, 140 N.J. 366, 378 (1995).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A party seeking to invoke fictitious party practice bears the burden of demonstrating compliance with the Rule. See Giovine v. Giovine, 284 N.J. Super. 3, 38 (App. Div. 1995) (Skillman, J.A.D., concurring and dissenting) (citing Lopez v. Swyer, 62 N.J. 267, 276 (1973)) ("A party who seeks to avoid the bar of a statute of limitations by invocation of the discovery rule or other comparable doctrine has the burden of proof.").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The fictitious party practice rule provides in relevant part:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In any action, . . . if the defendant's true name is unknown to the plaintiff, process may issue against the defendant under a fictitious name, stating it to be fictitious and adding an appropriate description sufficient for identification. Plaintiff shall on motion, prior to judgment, amend the complaint to state defendant's true name, such motion to be accompanied by an affidavit stating the manner in which that information was obtained.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">[Rule 4:26-4.]<br />Accordingly, the Rule requires a plaintiff invoking fictitious party practice to satisfy three requirements: (1) the plaintiff must not know the identity of the defendant said to be named fictitiously; (2) the fictitiously named defendant</span></p></div></div><img alt="page8image11592" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cd5fec0b-8f4b-4fc6-8570-92f0492d0029" width="319.630000" /><img alt="page8image11752" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3fc9a57f-d794-4e7d-915f-a60de7d642da" width="27.720000" /><img alt="page8image11912" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/58facfc4-1e6c-48f9-a63e-c9eecf0c30d5" width="21.144000" /><img alt="page8image12072" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/fc81bcf3-36e6-400d-b2a0-7f80972d3417" width="117.480000" /><img alt="page8image12232" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7d561dbf-6882-47b7-be7e-97cc39132345" width="93.144000" /><img alt="page8image12392" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9e8bc86f-e794-4b15-81a2-539f27c57510" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page8image12552" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b34dc2b7-58cc-4250-ae27-115ff738e4cb" width="27.744000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">8</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 9"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">must be described with sufficient detail to allow identification; and (3) the plaintiff must provide proof of how it learned the defendant's identity. Ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Although not expressly stated in the Rule, the party invoking fictitious party practice also must satisfy a fourth requirement: the party must act diligently in attempting to identify the defendant. Matynska v. Fried, 175 N.J. 51, 53 (2002); Claypotch v. Heller, Inc., 360 N.J. Super. 472, 479-80 (App. Div. 2003); Mears v. Sandoz Pharms., Inc., 300 N.J. Super. 622, 629 (App. Div. 1997). Indeed, "[t]he purpose of the rule is to render timely the complaint filed by a diligent plaintiff, who is aware of a cause of action against an identified defendant but does not know the defendant's name." Greczyn v. Colgate- Palmolive, 183 N.J. 5, 11 (2005) (emphasis added); see also Pressler & Verniero, Current N.J. Court Rules, cmt. 2 on R. 4:26-4 (2021). The amended complaint substituting the real name of a fictitiously named party is said to "relate back" to the date the complaint was originally filed. Claypotch, 360 N.J. Super. at 480.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">As the motion judge correctly recognized, a plaintiff may invoke Rule 4:26-4 only if the plaintiff satisfies two phases of due diligence. "First, a plaintiff must exercise due diligence in endeavoring to identify the responsible defendants before filing the original complaint naming [fictitious] parties.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page9image11944" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6fc5e9c4-4022-4d8f-b769-2666646977b4" width="27.480000" /><img alt="page9image12104" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/daa384c6-27c6-4c93-aa92-37b5a80b389b" width="27.744000" /><img alt="page9image12264" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4c026938-528b-46d3-9727-027681927411" width="108.260000" /><img alt="page9image12424" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c0c1d698-7576-4d2b-aaac-f25ed1bf2d43" width="144.500000" /><img alt="page9image12584" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/375504fb-9276-4fac-b7f6-321325f088ba" width="188.180000" /><img alt="page9image12744" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0f57f8eb-de65-4ab7-bc65-713d64d789bb" width="128.760000" /><img alt="page9image12904" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/6f5765e6-4b88-4223-833e-a5b5e4957ba6" width="125.060000" /><img alt="page9image13064" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f106260a-435d-4cb7-8eba-b0dc764753e7" width="59.520000" /><img alt="page9image13224" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/32866d12-91e2-4665-b532-cba52662dd95" width="45.480000" /><img alt="page9image13384" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/94a8fca3-c354-4c8e-aab6-77c4397f877a" width="147.620000" /><img alt="page9image13544" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4430fd52-94c3-4342-82c1-f3fbbe8650dd" width="13.440000" /><img alt="page9image13704" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f77c319f-d280-4c7e-ab8d-29571346c412" width="60.240000" /><img alt="page9image13864" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c3799c42-8625-443f-bf50-1443423ba09a" width="27.600000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">9</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 10"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Second, a plaintiff must act with due diligence in taking prompt steps to substitute the defendant's true name, after becoming aware of that defendant's identity." Baez, 453 N.J. Super. at 439; see also Claypotch, 360 N.J. Super. at 480.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Stated another way, a showing of diligence is a threshold requirement for resort to fictitious party practice. See Matynska, 175 N.J. at 53 (referring to the "due diligence threshold"); Claypotch, 360 N.J. Super. at 479-80 (stating that defendant may use a fictitious name "only if a defendant's true name cannot be ascertained by the exercise of due diligence prior to filing the complaint"); Mears, 300 N.J. Super. at 630 (among other things, a plaintiff's failure to act with due diligence would "disregard considerations of essential fairness to [the] defendant[,] thereby violating the purpose behind the statute of limitations").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">When the plaintiff has acted diligently, the absence of prejudice may permit an amendment to serve the interests of justice and fairness. Farrell v. Votator Div. of Chemetron Corp., 62 N.J. 111, 122-23 (1973). However, "[t]here cannot be any doubt that a defendant suffers some prejudice merely by the fact that it is exposed to potential liability for a lawsuit after the statute of limitations has run." Mears, 300 N.J. Super. at 631; see also Claypotch, 360 N.J. Super. at 480 (recognizing prejudice to the defendant is "a crucial factor"</span></p></div></div><img alt="page10image12056" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cb2a4eac-47c5-430c-a232-2f109ebb6005" width="29.280000" /><img alt="page10image12216" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c82ceded-cc0f-4f6b-a636-bd7494241802" width="46.824000" /><img alt="page10image12376" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3e3bb2ff-30be-4f51-b9cc-79c4b7135109" width="60.240000" /><img alt="page10image12536" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9b552ff2-ecc6-4783-aa5c-131f1fad04ba" width="21.120000" /><img alt="page10image12696" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0bc08bb9-8e53-49b4-9a59-4ad76aa7babb" width="57.744000" /><img alt="page10image12856" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/20097106-4b79-4108-8c77-2747f3e0efdb" width="60.360000" /><img alt="page10image13016" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/00692261-ee50-4095-ae98-8434f25c76b9" width="36.600000" /><img alt="page10image13176" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/819ea0f5-e63d-4349-ae9a-038b5938db34" width="55.440000" /><img alt="page10image13336" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/653a26d2-2020-4327-9ea4-376f4379b2eb" width="209.060000" /><img alt="page10image13496" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ee08bab1-ca9b-4458-9249-4c422226a1cc" width="36.480000" /><img alt="page10image13656" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/63f89985-8d5f-4350-8ef9-8dfa27e5e891" width="47.760000" /><img alt="page10image13816" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/525205ef-90a1-416e-9d80-613a19f6f87a" width="60.264000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">10</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 11"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">as to "whether a plaintiff has acted with due diligence"). Nonetheless, the absence of prejudice to the defendant does not necessarily imply that the plaintiff has exercised due diligence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Applying these principles, we conclude plaintiff raises no issues on appeal that warrant extended discussion. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E). We affirm substantially for the sound reasons expressed by the motion judge. We add only the following brief remarks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff's reliance on our Supreme Court's decision in Farrell is misplaced. In Farrell, the plaintiff was injured while cleaning an industrial machine. 62 N.J. at 113. He did not know the identity of the builder of the machine and named a fictitious defendant in his initial complaint. Ibid. After the expiration of the statute of limitations, at a deposition, the plaintiff's attorney learned that the name of the builder was adhered to the machine itself. Ibid. Within a month, he moved to amend the complaint to name the builder as a defendant. Id. at 114. The Court found "the plaintiffs</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">[7] </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">in good faith brought their action expeditiously against the manufacturer under a fictitious name,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">7 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The plaintiff's wife also filed a derivative claim for loss of consortium. 62 N.J. at 113.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page11image10784" height="0.719990" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/75209b4c-29ca-4870-870a-ed1bba940825" width="13.584000" /><img alt="page11image10944" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ac7096ee-eae9-4c4c-869c-f954bfda76a7" width="39.480000" /><img alt="page11image11104" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/33faecb3-c530-47b9-83cf-2f5a72674c57" width="39.504000" /><img alt="page11image11264" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bbe16b12-dfec-46bd-b7a0-71809d82b523" width="27.504000" /><img alt="page11image11424" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2e127911-aa0c-4dfc-9e40-5cc07df0ea47" width="27.480000" /><img alt="page11image11584" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d031bfe3-67f0-4c72-a9ce-9fe9dfc013eb" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page11image11744" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dd9f1145-fdfc-436e-ae60-84187d500a8e" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">11</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 12"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">identified it by amendment as soon as they discovered its true name, and served the amended complaint diligently thereafter." Id. at 122.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">By contrast in the present matter, plaintiff inadvertently discovered Invacare's identity pursuant to discovery exchanged between Summit Oaks and Nova Medical. And plaintiff waited seven months thereafter to move for leave to add Invacare to his lawsuit. Simply put, plaintiff's lack of diligence was solely responsible for the delay in filing a timely complaint against Invacare, and, as a result, plaintiff neither is entitled to the protection afforded by Rule 4:26-4 nor relaxation of the Rule on equity grounds.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image5808" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d47a1f7e-abe0-46cf-aa55-cac442496a23" width="16.080000" /><img alt="page12image5968" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ece2cd57-e8b7-4fc5-954d-406900af2237" width="27.600000" /><img alt="page12image6128" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ffbb26bf-800f-4b8e-88a2-69be2a00f90c" width="27.720000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Affirmed.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page12image6736" height="60.600000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/37dd970c-f7bd-4684-8ed4-fbbe653bd198" width="124.800000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">12</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-4374-18</span></p></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-79401808646277021432021-03-22T22:23:00.000-04:002021-03-22T22:23:03.114-04:00 Turnover Motion discussed here page1image3784 MARINA DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CO. LLC T/A BORGATA Plaintiff-Respondent, v. RONALD LENOWITZ,<p> Turnover Motion discussed here</p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><br /></p></div></div><img alt="page1image3784" height="0.480000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/dcea74c0-f860-4c08-a9b8-e6b4604ec0f9" width="9.240000" /></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">MARINA DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CO. LLC T/A BORGATA</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff-Respondent, v.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">RONALD LENOWITZ, Defendant-Appellant,</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">and<br />JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Respondent. ______________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Submitted February 3, 2021 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Decided March 2, 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Before Judges Geiger and Mitterhoff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Atlantic County, Docket No. L-0133- 19.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 6pt; vertical-align: 3pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Improperly pled as JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION<br />DOCKET NO. A-1116-19</span></p></div></div><img alt="page1image10480" height="0.600040" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/88955c79-3a61-4a74-a3a2-f9580e1f0366" width="144.020000" /></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Ronald Lenowitz, appellant pro se.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Josiah Knapp, attorney for respondent Marina District Development Co. LLC.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Stagg Wabnik Law Group LLP, attorneys for respondent JPMorgan Chase Bank (Michelle E. Tarson on the brief).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PER CURIAM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt;">This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant Ronald Lenowitz appeals an October 11, 2019 order requiring</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Chase), to turnover monies in defendant's bank account that were levied upon by plaintiff Marina District Development Co., LLC, trading as the Borgata. We vacate the order and remand for further proceedings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We discern the following facts from the record. In 2018, defendant issued checks to plaintiff, drawn on defendant's checking account, that were dishonored by the bank upon which they were drawn. On January 21, 2019, plaintiff filed a Law Division collection action against defendant. Defendant was served with process on April 5, 2019. Defendant did not file a responsive pleading. On June 13, 2019, a default judgment was entered against defendant in the amount of $18,410.41 plus costs of $290. Post-judgment interest in the amount of $159.59 accrued through September 10, 2019.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A writ of execution issued by the court was served on Chase by the Mercer County Sheriff on July 23, 2019. Although more than $6000 was on deposit in defendant's bank account, Chase only put a levy hold on $2101.19.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The Sheriff sent a levy notice to plaintiff and defendant on September 4, 2019. One week later, plaintiff filed a motion to turnover funds, returnable on October 11, 2019. Defendant filed and served opposing papers on October 9, 2019. The judge did not see the opposing papers by the return date and considered the motion unopposed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In his pro se opposing papers, defendant claimed that the court did not have personal jurisdiction over him due to defective service of process. However, defendant did not appeal the judgment or file a motion to vacate it under Rule 4:50-1. He also argued that the funds on deposit in the account were exempt from levy or execution because they consisted of Social Security benefits and proceeds from a Citibank, N.A., retirement account that were directly deposited into his Chase account. Defendant relied on 26 U.S.C. § 6334(d) as to the Social Security benefits and New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) § 5205(d)(1)(C) as to the retirement account funds. Other than his own self-serving affidavit, defendant did not provide verification that the funds</span></p></div></div><img alt="page3image11624" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/bf34a3c0-1998-46f0-b473-bf5d022c1584" width="27.720000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">3</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">on deposit fell within any of these specific exemptions in his opposing papers or to this court; his assertions were unsupported.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">On October 11, 2019, the Law Division judge granted plaintiff's turnover motion. This appeal followed.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Defendant raises the following points for our consideration:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN GRANTING</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR TURNOVER ORDER</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">OF BANK ACCOUNT WITHOUT ANY CONSIDERA TION OF </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">DEFENDANT’S</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">OPPOSITION PAPERS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">II. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN GRANTING</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR TURN</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">-OVER ORDER OF BANK ACCOUNT IN VIOLA TION OF INTERNAL REVENUE CODE [26 U.S.C. § 6334(d)] WITH RESPECT TO EXEMP[T] SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">III. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN GRANTING</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR TURN</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">-OVER ORDER OF BANK ACCOUNT IN VIOLA TION OF SECTION 20 C.F.R. § 404.970 SSR 79-4 AND THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT SECTION 207.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">IV. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN GRANTING</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR TURN OVER ORDER</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">IN VIOLATION OF NEW YORK CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES SECTION(S) 5202 and 5205(d)(1)(C). ("NEW YORK EXEMPT INCOME PROTECTION ACT").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">4</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 5"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">A judgment creditor may obtain a writ of execution and levy on a defendant's bank account. Morristown Mem. Hosp. v. Caldwell, 340 N.J. Super. 562, 566 (App. Div. 2001) (citing R. 4:59-1(a); R. 6:7-1(a)). The judgment creditor may then move for a turnover order of the funds levied upon. See id. at 565, 567; N.J.S.A. 2A:17-63. The defendant may oppose turnover on a claim that the funds on account are exempt from levy. See R. 4:59-1(h). The court must then determine whether the funds are exempt fromlevy. Ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The exemptions available to a judgment debtor in New Jersey include: (a) $1000 in personal property of any kind, N.J.S.A. 2A:17-19; (b) Social Security benefits, 42 U.S.C. § 407; (c) pension benefits, 29 U.S.C. § 1056(d)(1), N.J.S.A. 25:2-1 and N.J.S.A. 43:15A-53; and (d) annuity contracts up to $500 per month, N.J.S.A. 17B:24- 7. In addition, Rule 4:59-1(b)(1) excludes "electronic deposits, made on a recurring basis," from levy if "deposit[ed] into the account during the [ninety] days immediately prior to service of the writ." Defendant argues that New York has more expansive exemptions for retirement benefits under qualified retirement plans. He claims the electronically deposited funds in the Chase account were exempt from levy under Federal, New Jersey, and New York law.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff contends the funds levied upon were not Social Security benefits or funds from a qualifying trust. Based on bank account records, it claims the account did</span></p></div></div><img alt="page5image12392" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/635f076e-df09-4a29-84db-548c49dcdaad" width="202.970000" /><img alt="page5image12552" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/98678cca-4d21-4867-9e0e-9a2b3ac18feb" width="12.240000" /><img alt="page5image12712" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/d5b6f1d1-0e65-45d2-b102-0c629f6193f2" width="12.240000" /><img alt="page5image12872" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/4c8d3f8b-935e-4bbf-a9ae-54ac1ef39982" width="19.344000" /><img alt="page5image13032" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f6578599-3642-413c-8a6b-ff198a55f8e2" width="13.560000" /><img alt="page5image13192" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/175cced7-da3b-4251-84d0-0a2a41bb5be5" width="19.320000" /><img alt="page5image13352" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/57362ac5-a088-42fd-89ea-48649bec0e22" width="12.240000" /><img alt="page5image13512" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/3c46abc5-34f6-4ead-b39b-d72d39ecb262" width="24.600000" /><img alt="page5image13672" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/5e27abf5-f2f2-4e03-8c68-93ad4d33d684" width="25.320000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">5</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 6"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">not contain any Social Security benefits that were deposited within sixty days prior to the levy. Rather, the funds on deposit were derived from defendant's professional work. It further claims that defendant deposited over $78,000 into the Chase account in the ninety days preceding the levy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Plaintiff also argues that the levy and turnover are subject to New Jersey law because the underlying transaction took place here, the judgment was entered in New Jersey, the bank account was in New Jersey, and the levy was made in New Jersey. In addition, the credit application for the transaction leading to the debt contained a forum selection clause that provided the contract would be governed by New Jersey law. Plaintiff also argues that defendant waived any challenge to personal jurisdiction by not contesting the action before the trial court.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">The record on appeal consists of the papers on file in the court below. R. 2:5- 4(a). The documents supporting defendant's contention that the funds on deposit were not exempt were not part of the record before the trial court. Defendant did not move to supplement the record. Therefore, we do not consider them. See Pressler & Verniero, Current N.J. Court Rules, cmt 1 on R. 2:5-5(a) (2021) ("if no supplementation motion is made, the court will not ordinarily consider materials outside the record").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We do not reach the merits of the exemptions claimed by defendant. Our rules provide a mandatory procedure to be followed when a judgment debtor claims that</span></p></div></div><img alt="page6image12944" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7e8d9555-6954-4804-88ac-a9d825f865d9" width="12.360000" /><img alt="page6image13104" height="0.719970" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/9d0e5fcf-47e6-49f3-b0b6-edbcaaa3e49c" width="19.440000" /><img alt="page6image13264" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/daccff3f-90ca-42d9-bda7-d4ce29704344" width="132.620000" /><img alt="page6image13424" height="0.720030" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/546c58c1-c351-4c68-b940-29b14cdc3665" width="12.240000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">6</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 7"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">funds are exempt from levy: "If the clerk or the court receives a claim of exemption, whether formal or informal, it shall hold a hearing thereon within [seven] days after the claim is made." R. 4:59-1(h).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Here, defendant submitted an exemption claim on October 9, 2019, two days before the return date of the turnover motion. A hearing should have been held within seven days. It was not. Instead, the court granted the motion as unopposed without considering the merits of the exemption claim. We are thus constrained to vacate the turnover order and remand to the trial court for a hearing on the exemption objection raised by defendant.</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">In so ruling, we express no opinion on the merit of defendant's exemption arguments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">Vacated and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. We do not retain jurisdiction.</span></p></div></div><img alt="page7image7704" height="0.720000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/a63d7be5-7c0b-42f0-a872-7015f42bc8e6" width="12.240000" /><img alt="page7image7864" height="60.750000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7fbf4b54-a39f-4812-8e6d-a9e599016970" width="124.550000" /><img alt="page7image8032" height="0.600040" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/84213570-a2b5-459a-9a39-5da43c34efdb" width="144.020000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">We do not fault the judge since he was unaware of defendant's exemption claim when he granted the turnover motion as unopposed.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14pt;">7</span></p></div><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 8pt;">A-1116-19</span></p></div></div></div>Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-14184192762852263892020-06-24T22:07:00.000-04:002020-06-24T22:07:21.183-04:00Order for ejectment of occupier proper here TERESITA LEONARDO, v. CATALINO TAVERAS,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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v.
CATALINO TAVERAS,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Submitted May 20, 2020 – Decided June 5, 2020
Before Judges Mayer and Enright.
On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey,
Chancery Division, Passaic County, Docket No. C-
000059-15, and Law Division, Docket No. DC-014532-
18.
<pre style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 1.1em 1em 1.1em 0.7em;">NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE
APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION
This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court." Although it is posted on the
internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
APPELLATE DIVISION
DOCKET NOS. A-3649-18T3
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<span style="font-size: 0.9em;"> A-4001-18T3</span>.
PER CURIAM
In these consolidated matters, defendant Catalino Taveras appeals from a
March 15, 2019 order of possession and an April 29, 2019 order denying his
motion to vacate a judgment. We affirm both orders on appeal.
The facts are straightforward. Defendant and plaintiff Teresita Leonardo
are an unmarried couple who cohabitated for nearly twenty years and
collectively purchased properties. Together, the parties purchased two
properties in Paterson that are the subject of these appeals. One property is
located at 266- <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=68%20East%2017" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">68 East 17</a>th Street (the 17th Street property). 1 The other property
is located at 340-342 6th Avenue (the 6th Avenue property). In October 2014,
plaintiff transferred her interest in two other jointly owned properties to
defendant. According to plaintiff, defendant promised to pay her $150,000,
which represented the down payment on the 17th Street property, in exchange
for the properties she transferred to defendant in October 2014. Plaintiff
asserted she paid the mortgage, closing costs, and electric bills for the 6th
Avenue and 17th Street properties. In return, plaintiff claimed that defendant
promised her a fifty percent share in each property. In 2014, the parties
separated.
1
At a point in time not indicated in the record, defendant lived in part of the
multifamily home at the17th Street property.
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In August 2015, plaintiff commenced a partition action in the Chancery
court to apportion the 17th Street property and the 6th Avenue property and to
compel defendant's payment of the promised $150,000 (partition action). The
matter proceeded to trial with the judge taking testimony from the parties. In a
February 8, 2017 oral decision, the judge compelled defendant to transfer his
interest in the 6th Avenue property to plaintiff. He also ordered plaintiff to
transfer her interest in the 17th Street property to defendant. In addition, the
judge found defendant promised to pay plaintiff the sum of $150,000 in
exchange for relinquishing her interest in the 17th Street property and entered
judgment against defendant in that amount. He ordered the parties to exchange
quitclaim deeds to effectuate the property transfers within thirty days.
Defendant never sought reconsideration of the judge's February 8, 2017 order
for judgment (February 2017 judgment). Nor did defendant file an appeal from
that judgment.
Defendant failed to execute a quitclaim deed for the 6th Avenue property.
He also failed to pay the $150,000 awarded to plaintiff in the February 2017
judgment. As a result, plaintiff filed an enforcement motion, which was heard
by the judge who tried the partition action. Defendant did not oppose the
motion. Due to defendant's non-compliance with the court's February 2017
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judgment, in a July 23, 2018 amended order for judgment (July 2018 amended
judgment), the judge compelled defendant to transfer his interest in both the 6th
Avenue and 17th Street properties to plaintiff and eliminated the money
judgment awarded to plaintiff.
Despite awareness of his legal obligations under the February 2017
judgment and July 2018 amended judgment, defendant claimed to have made
settlement offers to plaintiff in August 2018 proposing various scenarios that
would allow him to retain the 17th Street property. He also contended the
quitclaim deed to the 6th Avenue property was signed on October 15, 2018.
Because defendant had not executed the quitclaim deed for the 17th Street
property, in an October 15, 2018 order, a different Chancery judge appointed an
attorney to act on behalf of defendant and to execute a quitclaim deed for both
properties. On October 19, 2018, the court-appointed attorney signed and
recorded the deed transferring defendant's interest in the 17th Street property to
plaintiff.
Upon learning his interest in the 17th Street property had been transferred
to plaintiff, defendant filed an order to show cause (OTSC) in the partition
action. In his OTSC, defendant sought the following relief: restraining plaintiff
from collecting rent at the 17th Street property; permitting him to reside at the
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17th Street property; and allowing him to pay the original monetary judgment
awarded to plaintiff under the February 2017 judgment in lieu of transferring his
interest in the 17th Street property.
During the OTSC argument, defendant's then counsel acknowledged his
client never filed an appeal from the prior judgments and failed to comply with
those judgments. At the OTSC hearing, defense counsel conceded his client
"was completely incorrect" by "ignoring [the judgments]." The judge denied
defendant's OTSC on November 5, 2018.
Because defendant continued to reside at the 17th Street property, on
December 20, 2018, plaintiff filed an ejectment action in the Special Civil Part
in Passaic County (ejectment action). Defendant sought an adjournment of the
trial in the ejectment action based on his filing of a motion to vacate the July
2018 amended judgment in the partition action. The Special Civil Part judge
denied the adjournment request and conducted a trial in the ejectment action on
March 15, 2019.
After listening to the testimony, the Special Civil Part judge entered a
March 15, 2019 order for possession in favor of plaintiff. She ordered defendant
to vacate the 17th Street property by March 20, 2019 and denied his request for
a stay. In her statement of reasons, the Special Civil Part judge found defendant
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was no longer the owner of the 17th Street property based on his failure to
comply with the judgments in the partition action. She further found that
defendant had "no colorable claim of title or possession" based on the October
19, 2018 quitclaim deed transferring title of the 17th Street property to plaintiff.
Although defendant filed his motion to vacate the July 2018 amended
judgment a month prior to the trial in the ejectment action, his motion was not
heard by the Chancery judge until April 29, 2019. After hearing the arguments
of counsel, in an April 29, 2019 order, the judge denied the motion to vacate the
July 2018 amended judgment, finding defendant "effectively wants to go back
to the . . . original final judgment . . . ." The judge explained that if defendant
was dissatisfied with the July 2018 amended judgment, he had the opportunity
to file a motion for reconsideration or file an appeal and he did neither. The
judge also rejected defendant's claim that the amended judgment was void under
Rule 4:50-1(d) due to a lack of findings of fact and conclusions of law consistent
with Rule 1:7-4. The judge further found defendant's argument under Rule 4:50-
1(f) inapplicable because defendant failed to establish that enforcement of the
judgment would be unjust, oppressive, or inequitable. The judge explained the
value of the property, minus the outstanding mortgage, and minus the $150,000
owed to plaintiff under the original final order of judgment, left a differential of
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approximately $27,000. Based on plaintiff's expenses incurred in enforcing her
rights in the partition action and her payment of the carrying costs on the
properties, the judge found the differential amount was insufficient to set aside
the amended judgment as unjust, oppressive, or inequitable.
Defendant separately appealed the March 15, 2019 order for possession in
the ejectment action and the April 29, 2019 order denying his motion to vacate
July 2018 amended judgment. At his request, the appeals were consolidated.
On appeal, defendant contends the judge erred in denying his motion to
vacate the July 2018 amended judgment. He claims the July 2018 amended
judgment should have been vacated because the judge who entered that
judgment failed to comply with Rule 1:7-4. In addition, defendant asserts he
satisfied the requirements of Rule 4:50-1 in support of vacating the July 2018
amended judgment.
The decision to grant or deny a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule
4:50-1 is within the sound discretion of the trial court as guided by principles of
equity. Hous. Auth. of Morristown v. Little, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=135%20N.J.%20274" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">135 N.J. 274</a>, 283 (1994). Unless
the trial court's decision was a clear abuse of discretion, it will not be disturbed
on appeal. Ibid. (citing Mancini v. EDS ex rel. N.J. Auto. Full Ins. Underwriting
Ass'n, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=132%20N.J.%20330" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">132 N.J. 330</a>, 334 (1993)). The rule "is designed to reconcile the strong
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interests in finality of judgments and judicial efficiency with the equitable
notion that courts should have authority to avoid an unjust result in any given
case." Mancini, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=132%20N.J.at%20334" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">132 N.J. at 334</a> (quoting Baumann v. Marinaro, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=95%20N.J.%20380" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">95 N.J. 380</a>,
392 (1984)).
We first consider defendant's argument that the July 2018 amended
judgment should have been vacated because the judge who entered that
judgment failed to set forth findings of fact and conclusions of law in accordance
with Rule 1:7-4. We disagree. The orders on appeal pursuant to defendant's
notice of appeal are the April 29, 2019 order and the March 15, 2019 order. The
judges who entered those orders provided detailed and well-reasoned findings
of fact and conclusions of law in support of their determinations. Defendant's
arguments are addressed to the July 2018 amended judgment but he admits he
never pursued an appeal from that judgment.
We next consider defendant's argument that he presented exceptional
circumstances for vacating the July 2018 amended judgment under Rule 4:50-
1(f). Defendant claimed the 17th Street property was his personal residence,
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and plaintiff experienced a windfall when that property was transferred to her.
He also asserted lack of notice of plaintiff's enforcement application. 2
Rule 4:50-1(f) gives a court discretion to vacate a final judgment for "any
other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment or ord er." A
motion to vacate under Rule 4:50-1(f) requires proof of truly exceptional
circumstances such that "a grave injustice would occur" if the order is enforced.
Little, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=135%20N.J.at%20289" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">135 N.J. at 289</a>. A motion under this rule is fact-specific and addressed
to the sound discretion of the trial court. Baumann, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=95%20N.J.at%20395" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">95 N.J. at 395</a>.
Defendant's argument under Rule 4:50-1(f) is the same as his argument
that the July 2018 amended judgment is void because the judge who entered that
judgment failed to state his findings of fact and conclusions of law pursuant to
Rule 1:7-4. Defendant's failure to comply with the judgments in the partition
action, coupled with his failure to file an appeal, do not constitute a "grave
injustice" warranting the July 2018 amended judgment to be vacated. Having
reviewed the record, we are satisfied that any "imbalance" in the judge's
2
Defendant never argued lack of notice of the July 2018 amended judgment in
his motion to vacate. Defendant may not raise a vague challenge to the July
2018 amended judgment based on an argument not presented to the motion
judge. See U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n v. Curcio, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=444%20N.J.Super%2094" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">444 N.J. Super 94</a>, 105 (App. Div.
2016).
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reallocation of property rights between the parties in the partition action was not
a grave injustice warranting the vacating of the July 2018 amended judgment.
This appeal is nothing more than an improper attempt to appeal from the
July 2018 amended judgment. "It is well established that [a Rule] 4:50 motion
may not be used as a substitute for a timely appeal." Wausau Ins. Co. v.
Prudential Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. of N.J., <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=312%20N.J.Super.%20516" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">312 N.J. Super. 516</a>, 519 (App. Div.
1998).
We turn to defendant's claims there is "no authority on which a court may
convert a money judgment (particularly in or following a divorce) into an order
to sign a deed to property over to the creditor[,]" rendering the July 2018
amended judgment void and unenforceable. Defendant failed to raise this
argument to the motion judge and therefore the matter is not properly before this
court. See U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n v Guillaume, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=209%20N.J.%20449" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">209 N.J. 449</a>, 484 n.6 (2012).
Moreover, defendant's merits brief is devoid of any legal authority in support of
this argument. Thus, we deem this argument waived based on defendant's
insufficient briefing. See Weiss v. Cedar Park Cemetery, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=240%20N.J.Super.%2086" style="color: #3333cc; text-decoration: none;">240 N.J. Super. 86</a>,
102-03 (App. Div. 1990).
Defendant also appeals from the March 15, 2019 order of possession in
the ejectment action. However, defendant did not substantively address that
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order in his merits brief. Because we affirm the July 2018 amended judgment,
transferring title of the 17th Street property to plaintiff, and based upon the filed
October 19, 2018 quitclaim deed, plaintiff has sole title to the 17th Street
property. Therefore, the March 15, 2019 order for possession in the ejection
action was proper.
Affirmed.
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-74621741466356178172020-04-12T19:11:00.001-04:002020-04-12T19:11:56.299-04:00Kenneth Vercammen’s Law Office new Will preparation online without having to travel to law office and follow up consults over phone & online. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Kenneth Vercammen’s Law Office new Will preparation online without having to travel to law office and follow up consults over phone & online. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 13pt;"><br /> To assist potential clients and seniors we now offer document preparation remotely and consults. We are concerned about your health and well being.<br />1. For Wills, Power of Attorney, Living Wills, please email <u>Vercammenlaw@njlaws.com</u>. We will email the interview form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 13pt;"><br />2. Type response/ Fill in details., email completed Will Questionnaire back. For Wills </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Please type up & fill out completely and email to vercammenlaw@njlaws.com. Typing name and details is required. Save as word doc or text, not pdf. This form is extremely important. Your accuracy and completeness in responding will help us best help you. All sections and information must be filled out prior to discussing with the attorney. Cannot be handwritten since we cannot cut and paste into the forms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 13pt;"><br />4. After persons pay by credit card online or payment confirmed from PayPal, we will draft documents and email to you.<br />5. Ken V will call to answer further questions<br />6. Sign documents in front of notary and two witnesses [ spouse ok as witness]. Signing instructions provided. UPS stores continue to be open and have notaries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 13pt;"> Stay safe but still get your important documents done. We strongly recommend all adults have a Power of Attorney prepared in the event they are temporarily incapacitated or hospitalized. We do require interview forms be completed in full and emailed back so we can provide accurate advice. The doctor’s office similarly has patients fill out details prior to the consult. We also recommend signing a </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Living Will with COMBINED ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR HEALTH CARE. The Living Will contains a Power of Attorney for Health Care & Medical Decisions. In signing your Living Will, you will designate an individual you trust to act as your legally recognized health care representative to make health care decisions for you in the event you are unable to make decisions for yourself.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-53962025111149273052020-01-29T16:25:00.001-05:002020-01-29T16:25:11.156-05:00Free Office Space for Transitional or New Attorney and work with Metuchen Public Defender and go to Court & Mentor program- Edison, NJ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>The Metuchen Public Defender Kenneth Vercammen has a space sharing opportunity for new lawyer or recent Transitional attorney to get experience and go to court and learn NJ Law office procedures and handle some Municipal court cases. This is a mentoring experience where you can learn NJ Law Office Procedure. Must be licensed in NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>Help handle Wednesday night 5:15 -7:55pm Metuchen Municipal Court matters and two Friday mornings per month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>Attorney will be provided with use of desk, plus if needed additional private office space in furnished basement to start their practice, rent-free. They can see clients in first floor office rooms. In return they will handle municipal court appearances, Telephone communications with courts, Prosecutors, clients, etc, Will signings and other legal work and criminal law website updates in lieu of rent for maximum 5 hours per week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>-Call Courts to follow up on Letter of Representation and scheduling of hearings & call Police Departments to follow up on discovery<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>- Prepare timesheets on Fatal Accident cases<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>-Call clients and remind them of hearing dates and what to do<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>- Update Criminal and Civil blogs with recent cases<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>-Assist at Senior citizen Will Seminars and Municipal Court programs<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Go to court and get court experience. Excellent opportunity to jump-start your career. You will get to represent people in Municipal Courts in Middlesex, Union and Monmouth County and meet the top Prosecutors and Judges. Must be admitted in NJ and have a car.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>https://www.njlaws.com/office_space.html<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Learn to interview potential Municipal Court/Criminal clients. Also learn to draft Wills and work on Litigation files. Attorney may also help provide legal assistance to members of prepaid legal plans and public defender clients. Follow up contact calls with clients, courts, prosecutors and bar associations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>Excellent mentoring position for the right attorney. Are you hardworking and aggressive? Visit our website: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.njlaws.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0000ee;">www.njlaws.com</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>to learn about our office. More details at <u>www.njlaws.com/lease.htm</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span>If interested, fax, mail , fax or email a resume and cover letter.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span>KENNETH VERCAMMEN, Esq. Metuchen Public Defender</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>2053 Woodbridge Ave. Edison, NJ 08817 (Phone) 732-572-0500 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>(Fax) 732-572-0030<span> </span>vercammenlaw@njlaws.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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WATERSIDE PLAZA APTS., LLC,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
EDWARD BRAND and MADELYN
OQUENDO,
Defendants-Respondents.
_____________________________________
Submitted October 1, 2018 – Decided October 11, 2018
Before Judges Sabatino and Mitterhoff.
On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law
Division, Special Civil Part, Bergen County, Docket
No. LT-6049-17.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE<pre> APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION
This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court ." Although it is posted on the
internet, this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited. R. 1:36-3.
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
APPELLATE DIVISION
DOCKET NO. A-0973-17T2
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PER CURIAM
In this unopposed appeal, a residential landlord seeks reversal of the trial
court's denial of its claim for $150 in counsel fees and court costs from tenants
who were delinquent with their rent payments. Because the landlord's right to
counsel fees in these circumstances as a component of the overdue "rent" was
clearly expressed in the lease, and the amount sought is reasonable, the
governing law supports a fee award. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's
denial of fees.
The facts pertinent to this appeal are relatively straightforward. Plaintiff
Waterside Plaza Apartments, LLC ("the landlord") is the owner of Waterside
Village, an apartment complex in Little Ferry. In May 2010, the landlord
entered into a written lease with defendants Edward Brand and Madelyn
Oquendo ("the tenants"). The lease was renewed annually. As of July 2017, the
monthly rent was $1,532.42.
The tenants have been repetitively late with their rent payments. The rent
ledger shows the tenants have been subject to late fees, bounced check charges,
and other costs nearly every month from January 2015 to the time of the present
case. This is the eighth time the tenants have been in litigation with the landlord
since 2015.
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In August 2017, the landlord filed a summary dispossess complaint in the
Special Civil Part, noting defendants had not paid the base rent due for July and
August 2017. In addition to the overdue rent, the landlord also sought a $50 late
fee for each of these two months, plus $150 in counsel fees, $58 in court costs,
and a $20 increase in the security deposit. The next monthly rent was due on
September 1, 2017. The complaint notified the tenants they needed to pay a
grand total of $3,391.50 if the case was scheduled for trial before September 1,
or $4,923.92 if the trial date was after September 1.
On August 31, 2017, the landlord's counsel and defendant Brand appeared
in the Special Civil Part on the scheduled trial date. Brand represented to the
judge he had already paid the July rent. He also was willing to tender the August
rent and the late fees prescribed by the lease, but was unwilling to pay the $150
in counsel fees sought by the landlord.
The landlord's counsel fee request is based on the following provision in
paragraph 21 of the lease:
Landlord shall be entitled to damages from
Tenant for any breach of the terms of this Lease. Rent
and additional rent for the unexpired lease is due and
payable upon termination. Damages shall include
reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred by the
Landlord in filing a lawsuit against Tenant. When
Landlord has sued Tenant for nonpayment of rent, in no
event shall the attorney's fees be less than $150.00.
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These charges shall be collectible as additional rent.
ALL PAYMENTS AFTER FILING OF A LAWSUIT
MUST BE MADE BY CERTIFIED CHECK OR
MONEY ORDER.
The landlord contends this provision is unambiguous and should be enforced ,
despite the tenants' tender of the overdue base rent and late charges.
The trial court dismissed the summary dispossess case pursuant to
<a href="http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/njstats/showsect.cgi?title=2A&chapter=18&section=55&actn=getsect">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-55, </a>which allows a residential tenant to be protected from
eviction if he or she pays the rent arrears due before the entry of final judgment.
The judge initially denied the landlord's counsel fee request on procedural
grounds, observing that such a fee claim was inappropriate to adjudicate in a
summary dispossess action and instead had to be pursued by the landlord in a
separate lawsuit in the Small Claims Division of the Special Civil Part.
The landlord moved for reconsideration of the denial of the fee claim,
submitting to the trial court authority for the recovery of such fees in a summary
dispossess action. The trial court again rejected the fee claim. In a written rider
in support of its decision, the court reiterated its procedural finding that the
landlord could not recover counsel fees in a summary dispossess case and had
to file a separate case to obtain the fees. In addition, the court substantively
concluded that the fee request is contrary to <a href="http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/njstats/showsect.cgi?title=2A&chapter=18&section=55&actn=getsect">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-55. </a>The court
reasoned that, since a tenant in default in rent can pay the arrears before the
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entry of final judgment, then "[a]fter this occurs, all the proceedings are stopped,
and the case is dismissed." Because the base rent arrears were tendered in this
case, before the entry of final judgment, the court found the landlord's fee claim
invalid.
On appeal, the landlord argues the trial court's procedural and substantive
rulings are incorrect. Its brief on appeal provides contrary legal authority not
discussed by the trial court. Those citations, as well as other authority, compel
reversal of the trial court's decision.
A key objective of the summary dispossess statute is to provide landlords
with a "swift and simple method of obtaining possession" of the premises.
Benjoray, Inc. v. Academy House Child Dev. Ctr., <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=437%20N.J.Super.%20481">437 N.J. Super. 481</a>, 486
(App. Div. 2014); see also Hous. Auth. of the City of Newark v. West, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=69%20N.J.%20293">69 N.J.
293</a>, 300 (1976). The summary procedure allows landlords to avoid delays that
often occur in common law ejectment actions. Hodges v. Sasil Corp., <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=189%20N.J.%20210">189 N.J.
210</a>, 221 (2007). Thus, possession of the premises generally is the only available
remedy in a summary dispossess action; money damages are not recoverable.
Ibid.
Despite the narrow scope of summary dispossess cases, our courts have
permitted landlords to recover counsel fees and court costs in such proceedings,
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under certain conditions. The Supreme Court has held that reasonable counsel
fees and damages may be recovered as rent in a summary dispossess proceeding,
but only if they are expressly provided by the written lease. Cmty. Realty
Mgmt., Inc. v. Harris, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=155%20N.J.%20212">155 N.J. 212</a>, 234 (1998). In Community Realty, the lease
specified that "monies due the landlord for damages, reasonable attorney fees,
and costs connected with the damage claims 'become charges due in addition to
rent.'" Id. at 234-35. The Court interpreted this term of the lease as evidence
the parties contemplated counsel fees would be considered additional "rent,"
recoverable by the landlord in a summary dispossess proceeding. Id. at 235.
Our court likewise has recognized this principle. In University Court v.
Mahasin, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=166%20N.J.Super.%20551">166 N.J. Super. 551</a>, 553 (App. Div. 1979), the tenant failed to pay
rent for two months. When she tendered at trial the two months of rent owed,
the landlord claimed that she was also required to pay an attorney's fee in order
to cure her default. Ibid. We held in Mahasin that, when expressly provided by
a written lease, a reasonable attorney's fee incurred by the landlord in bringing
a summary dispossess action for nonpayment of rent may "be contracted to be
considered additional rent, for the purposes of the summary dispossess act." Id.
at 554 (quoting Trenton Hous. Auth. v. Green, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=118%20N.J.Super.%20544">118 N.J. Super. 544</a>, 545 (App.
Div. 1972)). See also Mury v. Tublitz, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=151%20N.J.Super.%2039">151 N.J. Super. 39</a> (App. Div. 1977)
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(enforcing a lease provision requiring a tenant to pay, as additional rent,
reasonable attorney's fees and other expenses incurred in a nonpayment suit or
dispossess proceeding).
The statutory definition of "rent" is "the amount currently payable by the
tenant to the landlord pursuant to lease or other agreement . . . [.]" <a href="http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/njstats/showsect.cgi?title=2A&chapter=18&section=61&actn=getsect">N.J.S.A.
2A:18-61.16a. </a>In the absence of contravening public policy, the parties to a
lease are free to define "rent" as they choose. Fargo Realty, Inc. v. Harris, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=173%20N.J.Super.%20262">173 N.J. Super. 262</a>, 266 (App. Div. 1980). The function of a court is to enforce the
lease as it is written. We cannot make a different or better contract than the
parties entered into themselves. See also Cypress Point Condo Ass'n, Inc. v.
Adria Towers, L.L.C., <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=226%20N.J.%20403">226 N.J. 403</a>, 415 (2016); 22 Raymond I. Korona, New
Jersey Practice Series, Landlord and Tenant Law, § 10.1. (5th ed.).
The critical question, therefore, is whether the parties' lease has made
sufficiently clear that "rent" is defined to include not only overdue monthly lease
payments, but also counsel fees and other associated costs incurred by a
landlord. See R. 6:3-4(c) (noting that "[t]he amount of rent owed for purposes
of the dispossess action can include only the amount that the tenant is required
to pay by federal, state or local law and the lease executed by the parties")
(emphasis added). If the lease clearly includes counsel fees in the definition of
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rent, then, as the case law we have cited instructs, the court may award such
reasonable fees to the landlord. On the other hand, where the lease requires the
tenant to pay legal fees and other costs but does not characterize those expenses
as "rent" or as "additional rent," the landlord must seek a money judgment in a
separate breach of contract suit. See Mahasin, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=166%20N.J.%20Super.%20at%20555">166 N.J. Super. at 555</a>; Fargo
Realty, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=173%20N.J.%20Super.%20at%20267">173 N.J. Super. at 267</a>; 23A Korona, New Jersey Practice Series,
Landlord and Tenant Law, § 43.2. (5th ed.).
The trial court erred in failing to recognize that the terms of the lease in
this case plainly include counsel fees, which shall not be "less than $150.00," as
a component of the rent due from the delinquent tenant. The terms of the lease,
as written in this case, meet the standards for the recovery of a fee award. Hence,
the arrears amount tendered by the tenants under <a href="http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/njstats/showsect.cgi?title=2A&chapter=18&section=55&actn=getsect">N.J.S.A. 2A:18-55 </a>to preserve
the tenancy needed to include the unpaid counsel fee.
The trial court also erred in ruling that the landlord needed to file a
separate proceeding in the Small Claims Division to recover counsel fees. As
the Supreme Court explicitly instructed in Community Realty, <a href="https://njlaw.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/caselink.cgi?cite=155%20N.J.at%20234">155 N.J. at 234</a>,
the fees may be recovered in a summary dispossess proceeding, provided they
are defined as a component of "rent" in the lease.
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Lastly, we underscore that the $150.00 amount of counsel fees sought by
the landlord here has not been alleged or shown to be excessive or unreasonable.
That is particularly clear in light of these tenants' chronic history of non-
payment and late payment, and the landlord's need to bring successive court
actions to recover from them the bargained-for rent. Although the record
contains no certification of the landlord's attorney's services with hourly
billings, the tenants have not filed a brief on appeal arguing the $150 charge is
unreasonable. We need not, and do not, address here whether a higher fee would
have been reasonable and enforceable. The recovery of court costs is also
justified under the terms of the lease.
Reversed. The judgment of the trial court shall be modified forthwith to
include the unpaid counsel fees and court costs.
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(A) the attorney is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of the state in which the attorney is domiciled or principally practices law or, for foreign attorneys, the attorney is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of the jurisdiction in which the attorney is domiciled or principally practices law; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(B) the attorney is associated in the matter with New Jersey counsel of record qualified to practice pursuant to Rule 1:21-1; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(C) the client has requested to be represented by said attorney; and </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(D) no disciplinary proceedings are pending against the attorney in any jurisdiction and no discipline has previously been imposed on the attorney in any jurisdiction. If discipline has previously been imposed, the certification shall state the date, jurisdiction, nature of the ethics violation and the penalty imposed. If proceedings are pending, the certification shall specify the jurisdiction, the charges and the likely time of their disposition. An attorney admitted pro hac vice shall have the continuing obligation during the period of such admission promptly to advise the court of a disposition made of pending charges or of the institution of new disciplinary proceedings. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(E) With regard to foreign attorneys, associated New Jersey counsel must submit a separate affidavit stating that he or she has evaluated the foreign attorney’s credentials and certifies his or her satisfaction with them. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(2) In criminal and municipal actions a motion so supported shall be granted unless the court finds, for specifically stated reasons, that there are supervening considerations of judicial administration. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(3) In civil actions the motion shall be granted only if the court finds, from the supporting affidavit, that there is good cause for such admission, which shall include at least one of the following: </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(A) the cause in which the attorney seeks admission involves a complex field of law in which the attorney is a specialist, or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(B) there has been an attorney-client relationship with the client for an extended period of time, or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(C) there is a lack of local counsel with adequate expertise in the field involved, or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(D) the cause presents questions of law involving the law of the outside jurisdiction in which the applicant is licensed, or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(E) there is need for extensive discovery or other proceedings in the outside jurisdiction in which the applicant is licensed, or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(F) such other reason similar to those set forth in this subsection as would present good cause for the pro hac vice admission. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(c) Contents of Order. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">The order granting admission pro hac vice shall require the attorney to: </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(1) abide by these rules, including all disciplinary rules; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(2) consent to the appointment of the Clerk of the Supreme Court as agent upon whom service of process may be made for all actions against the attorney or the attorney's firm that may arise out of the attorney's participation in the matter; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(3) notify the court immediately of any matter affecting the attorney's standing at the bar of any other court; and </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(4) have all pleadings, briefs and other papers filed with the court signed by an attorney of record authorized to practice in this State, who shall be held responsible for them and for the conduct of the cause and of the admitted attorney therein. The order may contain further requirements concerning the participation of New Jersey counsel as the court from time to time deems necessary. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(d) Appearances in Subsequent Courts. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">An attorney permitted to speak pro hac vice by order entered by the trial court may speak in the cause on appeal by filing with the clerk of the appellate court a copy of the trial court's order together with a certification stating that all the conditions of the order have been complied with and, to the extent applicable, will continue to be complied with in the appellate court. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">(e) Revocation of Permission to Appear. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">The court may, on its own or a party's motion, withdraw the permission to appear granted pursuant to this rule for good cause shown. In the event of said revocation, the court shall make such further order respecting the further progress of the litigation as the circumstances may require. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">A reputable NJ attorney has prepared a checklist for out of state attorneys seeking to handle a matter in NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Geneva; padding: 0in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">Select trial experienced local counsel. Why?? A condition of admission is that NO adjournments (or even requests for adjournments) of discovery, motions, trial or any other proceeding are permitted due to out of state counsel not being able to attend. You or your client may be in a position where you need to rely for something important on local counsel so "choose wisely". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">2. Obtain a current certificate of good standing from your state bar association. This is required as part of the PRO HAC motion submission. Some bar associations take weeks to provide this documentation so start the process early and avoid delays.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">3. File a motion in Vicinage County Court. The motion must be filed by local counsel pursuant to court rules NJSA 1:21-2(b), as all documents filed with the court must be signed by local counsel. A certification of the attorney to be admitted and an order detailing the terms and continuing requirements of admission must be submitted along with the notice of motion.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">4. Submit certification of attorney requesting PRO HAC admission. The certification must confirm that the attorney is in good standing admitted to practice in his/her jurisdiction, accompanied by a certificate of good standing, the office address and contact information in that jurisdiction. It should include confirmation that the client has requested their representation and any other reasons why it is appropriate for them to be admitted (long term relationship, specially area of practice, existing familiarity with the case, etc.), and confirmation that the attorney will pay the NJ Lawyers Fund for Client Protection required by Court Rules NJSA 1:28-2 & 1:20-1(b) along with the other continuing requirements set forth in the order section below.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">5. Submit the PRO HAC order with your motion. The order should specify the terms of admission below or it will likely be rejected.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">-Notify the court of any matter affecting standing at the Bar of any jurisdiction</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">-PRO HAC cannot be “designated trial counsel”</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">-all pleadings, briefs and other papers filed with the court signed by an attorney of record authorized to practice in New Jersey</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">-No discovery, motion, trial or any other proceeding delay shall occur or be requested by reason of the inability to be in attendance</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">pay the fees required by R. 1:20-1(b) and R. 1:28-2 and submit an affidavit of compliance</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">-Pro hac vice admission will automatically terminate for failure to make the initial and any annual payment required by R. 1:20-1(b) and R. 1:28-2</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">Source </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="https://www.remesq.com/single-post/2017/04/11/5-steps-to-a-Pro-Hac-Vice-Admission" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">https://www.remesq.com/single-post/2017/04/11/5-steps-to-a-Pro-Hac-Vice-Admission</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">1:21-2. Appearances Pro Hac Vice (a) Conditions for Appearance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(1) An attorney of any other United States jurisdiction, of good standing there, whether practicing law in such other jurisdiction as an individual or a member or employee of a partnership or an employee of a professional corporation or limited liability entity authorized to practice law in such other jurisdiction, or an attorney admitted in this State, of good standing, may, at the discretion of the court in which any matter is pending, be permitted, pro hac vice, to speak in such matter in the same manner as an attorney of this State who is in compliance with Rule 1:21-1(a)(1). Except for attorneys who are employees of and are representing the United States of America or a sister state, no attorney shall be admitted under this rule without annually complying with Rule 1:20-1(b), Rule 1:28-2, and Rule 1:28B-1(e) during the period of admission. An attorney granted admission pro hac vice in accordance with this rule must include a copy of the order granting such permission when submitting to the New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection the annual fee provided for by Rule 1:20-1 and the other rules referred to herein. An attorney admitted both in this State and any other jurisdiction shall not, however, be permitted to appear pro hac vice if for any reason disqualified from practice in this State.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(2) A foreign attorney (licensed outside the United States), of good standing there, whether practicing law in such foreign jurisdiction as an individual or a member or employee of a partnership or an employee of a professional corporation or limited liability entity authorized to practice law in such foreign jurisdiction, may, at the discretion of the court in which any matter is pending, be permitted, pro hac vice, to speak in such matter in the same manner as an attorney of this State who is in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">compliance with Rule 1:21-1(a)(1). A foreign attorney may not advise the client on the substantive law of a United States jurisdiction or on procedural issues. New Jersey counsel must accompany the foreign attorney at all proceedings. No foreign attorney shall be admitted under this rule without annually complying with Rule 1:20-1(b), Rule 1:28-2, and Rule 1:28B-1(e) during the period of admission. A foreign attorney granted admission pro hac vice in accordance with this rule must include a copy of the order granting such permission when submitting to the New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection the annual fee provided for by Rule 1:20-1 and the other Rules referred to herein. A foreign attorney admitted both in this State and any other jurisdiction shall not, however, be permitted to appear pro hac vice if for any reason disqualified from practice in this State.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(b) Application for Admission. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">An application for admission pro hac vice shall be made on motion to all parties in the matter; which shall contain the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(1) In civil, criminal, and municipal actions, the motion shall be supported by an affidavit or certification of the attorney stating that:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(A) the attorney is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of the state in which the attorney is domiciled or principally practices law or, for foreign attorneys, the attorney is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of the jurisdiction in which the attorney is domiciled or principally practices law;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(B) the attorney is associated in the matter with New Jersey counsel of record qualified to practice pursuant to Rule 1:21-1;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(C) the client has requested to be represented by said attorney; and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(D) no disciplinary proceedings are pending against the attorney in any jurisdiction and no discipline has previously been imposed on the attorney in any jurisdiction. If discipline has previously been imposed, the certification shall state the date, jurisdiction, nature of the ethics violation and the penalty imposed. If proceedings are pending, the certification shall specify the jurisdiction, the charges and the likely time of their disposition. An attorney admitted pro hac vice shall have the continuing obligation during the period of such admission promptly to advise the court of a disposition made of pending charges or of the institution of new disciplinary proceedings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(E) With regard to foreign attorneys, associated New Jersey counsel must submit a separate affidavit stating that he or she has evaluated the foreign attorney’s credentials and certifies his or her satisfaction with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(2) In criminal and municipal actions a motion so supported shall be granted unless the court finds, for specifically stated reasons, that there are supervening considerations of judicial administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(3) In civil actions the motion shall be granted only if the court finds, from the supporting affidavit, that there is good cause for such admission, which shall include at least one of the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(A) the cause in which the attorney seeks admission involves a complex field of law in which the attorney is a specialist, or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(B) there has been an attorney-client relationship with the client for an extended period of time, or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(C) there is a lack of local counsel with adequate expertise in the field involved, or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(D) the cause presents questions of law involving the law of the outside jurisdiction in which the applicant is licensed, or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(E) there is need for extensive discovery or other proceedings in the outside jurisdiction in which the applicant is licensed, or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(F) such other reason similar to those set forth in this subsection as would present good cause for the pro hac vice admission.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(c) Contents of Order. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The order granting admission pro hac vice shall require the attorney to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(1) abide by these rules, including all disciplinary rules;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(2) consent to the appointment of the Clerk of the Supreme Court as agent upon whom service of process may be made for all actions against the attorney or the attorney's firm that may arise out of the attorney's participation in the matter;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(3) notify the court immediately of any matter affecting the attorney's standing at the bar of any other court; and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">(4) have all pleadings, briefs and other papers filed with the court signed by an attorney of record authorized to practice in this State, who shall be held responsible for them and for the conduct of the cause and of the admitted attorney therein. The order may contain further requirements concerning the participation of New Jersey counsel as the court from time to time deems necessary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(d) Appearances in Subsequent Courts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">An attorney permitted to speak pro hac vice by order entered by the trial court may speak in the cause on appeal by filing with the clerk of the appellate court a copy of the trial court's order together with a certification stating that all the conditions of the order have been complied with and, to the extent applicable, will continue to be complied with in the appellate court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(e) Revocation of Permission to Appear. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The court may, on its own or a party's motion, withdraw the permission to appear granted pursuant to this rule for good cause</span></div>
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-17820720085183330712019-05-16T15:07:00.000-04:002019-05-16T15:07:08.409-04:00RPC 5.5 Lawyers Not Admitted to the Bar of This State and the Lawful Practice of Law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">A lawyer shall not:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">practice law in a jurisdiction where doing so violates the regulation of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the legal profession in that jurisdiction; or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">assist a person who is not a member of the bar in the performance of activity that constitutes the unauthorized practice of law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(b) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">A lawyer not admitted to the Bar of this State who is admitted to practice law before the highest court of any other state, territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia (hereinafter a United States jurisdiction) may engage in the lawful practice of law in New Jersey only if:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer is admitted to practice pro hac vice pursuant to R. 1:21-2 or is preparing for a proceeding in which the lawyer reasonably expects to be so admitted and is associated in that preparation with a lawyer admitted to practice in this jurisdiction; or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer is an in-house counsel and complies with R. 1:27-2; or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">under any of the following circumstances:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(i) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer engages in the negotiation of the terms of a transaction in furtherance of the lawyer's representation on behalf of an existing client in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice and the transaction originates in or is otherwise related to a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(ii) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer engages in representation of a party to a dispute by participating in arbitration, mediation or other alternate or complementary dispute resolution program and the services arise out of or are reasonably related to the lawyer's practice in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice and are not services for which pro hac vice admission pursuant to R. 1:21-2 is required;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(iii) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer investigates, engages in discovery, interviews witnesses or deposes witnesses in this jurisdiction for a proceeding pending or anticipated to be instituted in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(iv) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the out-of-state lawyer's practice in this jurisdiction is occasional and the lawyer associates in the matter with, and designates and discloses to all parties in interest, a lawyer admitted to the Bar of this State who shall be held responsible for the conduct of the out-of-State lawyer in the matter; or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(v) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">the lawyer practices under circumstances other than (i) through (iv) above, with respect to a matter where the practice activity arises directly out of the lawyer's representation on behalf of an existing client in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice, provided that such practice in this jurisdiction is occasional and is undertaken only when the lawyer's disengagement would result in substantial inefficiency, impracticality or detriment to the client.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(c) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">A lawyer admitted to practice in another jurisdiction who acts in this jurisdiction pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">be licensed and in good standing in all jurisdictions of admission and not be the subject of any pending disciplinary proceedings, nor a current or pending license suspension or disbarment;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">be subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct and the disciplinary authority of the Supreme Court of this jurisdiction;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">(3) </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">consent in writing on a form approved by the Supreme Court to the appointment of the Clerk of the Supreme Court as agent upon whom service of process may be made for all actions against the lawyer or the lawyer's firm that may arise out of the lawyer's participation in legal matters in this jurisdiction, except that a lawyer who acts in this jurisdiction pursuant to subparagraph (b)(3)(ii) or (b)(3)(iii) above shall be deemed to have consented to such appointment without completing the form;</span></div>
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-9401986971846780662019-05-16T14:44:00.000-04:002019-05-16T14:44:40.932-04:00Pro Hac Admission to practice in NJ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(a) Qualifications. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Except as provided below, no person shall practice law in this State unless that person is an attorney holding a plenary license to practice in this State, is in good standing, and complies with the following requirements: </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(1) An attorney need not maintain a fixed physical location for the practice of law, but must structure his or her practice in such a manner as to assure, as set forth in RPC 1.4, prompt and reliable communication with and accessibility by clients, other counsel, and judicial and administrative tribunals before which the attorney may practice, provided that an attorney must designate one or more fixed physical locations where client files and the attorney’s business and financial records may be inspected on short notice by duly authorized regulatory authorities, where mail or hand-deliveries may be made and promptly received, and where process may be served on the attorney for all actions, including disciplinary actions, that may arise out of the practice of law and activities related thereto. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(2) An attorney who is not domiciled in this State and does not maintain a fixed physical location for the practice of law in this State, but who meets all qualifications for the practice of law set forth herein must designate the Clerk of the Supreme Court as agent upon whom service of process may be made for the purposes set forth in subsection (a)(1) of this rule, in the event that service cannot otherwise be effectuated pursuant to the appropriate Rules of Court. The designation of the Clerk as agent shall be made on a form approved by the Supreme Court. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(3) The system of prompt and reliable communication required by this rule may be achieved through maintenance of telephone service staffed by individuals with whom the attorney is in regular contact during normal business hours, through promptly returned voicemail or electronic mail service, or through any other means demonstrably likely to meet the standard enunciated in subsection (a)(1). </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(4) An attorney shall be reasonably available for in-person consultations requested by clients at mutually convenient times and places. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">A person not qualifying to practice pursuant to the first paragraph of this rule shall nonetheless be permitted to appear and prosecute or defend an action in any court of this State if the person (1) is a real party in interest to the action or the guardian of the party; or (2) has been admitted to speak pro hac vice pursuant to R. 1:21-2; (3) is a law student or law graduate practicing within the limits of R. 1:21-3; or (4) is an in-house counsel licensed and practicing within the limitations of R. 1:27-2. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Attorneys admitted to the practice of law in another United States jurisdiction may practice law in this state in accordance with RPC 5.5(b) and (c) as long as they comply with Rule 1:21-1(a)(1). </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">No attorney authorized to practice in this State shall permit another person to practice in this State in the attorney’s name or as the attorney’s partner, employee or associate unless such other person satisfies the requirements of this rule. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(b) Appearance. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">All attorneys and pro se parties appearing in any action shall be under the control of the court in which they appear and subject to appropriate disciplinary action. An attorney admitted in another jurisdiction shall not be deemed to be making an appearance in this State by reason of taking a deposition pursuant to R. 4:11-4. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(c) Prohibition on Entities. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Except as otherwise provided by paragraph (d) of this rule and by R. 1:21-1A (professional corporations), R. 1:21-1B (limited liability companies), R. 1:21-1C (limited liability partnerships), R. 6:10 (appearances in landlord- tenant actions), R. 6:11 (appearances in small claims actions), R. 7:6-2(a) (pleas in municipal court), R. 7:8-7(a) (presence of defendant in municipal court) and by R. 7:12- 4(d) (municipal court violations bureau), an entity, however formed and for whatever purpose, other than a sole proprietorship shall neither appear nor file any paper in any action in any court of this State except through an attorney authorized to practice in this State. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(d) Federal Government Agencies. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Staff attorneys employed full time by agencies of the federal government that have an office in New Jersey may represent the interests of that agency in federal and state courts in New Jersey without complying with subsection (a)(1) of this rule. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(e) Legal Assistance Organizations. </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Nonprofit organizations incorporated in this or any other state for the purpose of providing legal assistance to the poor or functioning as a public interest law firm, and other federally tax exempt legal assistance organizations or trusts, such as those defined by 26 U.S.C.A. 120(b) and 501(c)(20), that provide legal assistance to a defined and limited class of clients, may practice law in their own names through staff attorneys who are members of the bar of the State of New Jersey, provided that: (1) the legal work serves the intended beneficiaries of the organizational purpose, (2) the staff attorney responsible for the matter signs all papers prepared by the organization, and (3) the relationship between staff attorney and client meets the attorney's professional responsibilities to the client and is not subject to interference, control, or direction by the organization's board or employees except for a supervising attorney who is a member of the New Jersey bar. In addition, nonprofit organizations incorporated in this or any other state for the purpose of providing legal assistance to persons of low and low-moderate means, which are affiliated or associated with an ABA-accredited law school and which include a program to educate, mentor, or train recent law school graduates who are recently admitted members of the New Jersey bar ("participating new attorneys"), may practice law in the name of the </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">organization through such participating new attorneys, provided that: (1) the legal work provided by the organization serves clients of low to low-moderate means, (2) the participating new attorney responsible for any particular matter signs all papers in that matter on behalf of the organization, and (3) the relationship between the participating new attorney and the client is consistent with the attorney's professional responsibilities to the client and is not subject to interference, control, or direction by the organization's board or employees, except to the extent that the participating new attorney is under the oversight of a supervising attorney who is a member of the New Jersey bar. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(2) to represent a state agency if the Attorney General does not provide representation in the particular matter and the non-attorney representative is an employee of the agency with special expertise or experience in the matter in controversy; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(3) to represent a county welfare agency if County Counsel does not provide representation in the particular matter and the non-attorney representative is an employee of the agency with special expertise or experience in the matter in controversy; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(4) to assist in providing representation to an indigent as part of a Legal Services program if the non-attorney is a paralegal or legal assistant employed by that program; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(5) to represent a state, county or local government employee in Civil Service proceedings, provided (i) the non-attorney making such appearance is an authorized representative of a labor organization and (ii) the labor organization is the duly authorized representative of the employee for collective bargaining purposes; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(6) to represent a close corporation provided the non-attorney is a principal of the corporation; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(7) to assist an individual who is not represented by an attorney provided (i) the presentation appears likely to be enhanced by such assistance, (ii) the individual certifies that he or she lacks the means to retain an attorney and that representation is not available through a Legal Services program and (iii) the conduct of the proceeding by the Office of Administrative Law will not be impaired by such assistance; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(8) to represent parents or children in special education proceedings, provided the non-attorney has knowledge or training with respect to handicapped pupils and their educational needs so as to enable the non-attorney to facilitate the presentation of the claims or defenses of the parent or child; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(9) to represent union members and employees entitled to union representation in public employment relations proceedings, provided the appearance is by a union representative; </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(10) to represent a county or local government appointing authority in Civil Service proceedings, provided the non-attorney representative is an employee of the appointing authority with special expertise or experience in the matter in controversy and the legal representative for the county or municipality does not provide representation in the particular matter; or </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(11) to represent a claimant or employer before the Appeal Tribunals or Board of Review of the Department of Labor. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">(g) Appearances at Personal Injury Protection Arbitrations.</span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">A non-attorney may represent an insurance company employer at a Personal Injury Protection (PIP) arbitration. </span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-90538344326825726382019-05-02T09:23:00.001-04:002019-05-02T09:23:02.716-04:00Office space for rent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN EDISON LAW OFFICE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">2053 Woodbridge Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">Edison, NJ 08817<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Excellent space for an Attorney, Financial Planners, Accountant, Insurance Agents, and other Business Professionals as a 2nd location or location to meet clients in Edison.</span></b><span style="color: #493f37; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> The offices are located on the 1st floor of the building.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">2 rooms office <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">office room # 6 approx 12.4 x 9.4 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">and front room appr 8 x 9 -office room # 5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">plus use of reception room 16.6 x 7.2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">and use of storage area in basement <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Previously used by Robert Blackman, late former Judge and Prosecutor of Edison<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">$500 per month [was $600]<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Call </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">732-572-0500<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Owner of building is local attorney, Kenneth Vercammen who handles Municipal Court, Estate Planning & Probate, and Criminal Law. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Vercammen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05005140446459230078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749219262348888749.post-8080089777564806522019-03-04T14:41:00.000-05:002019-03-04T14:41:00.498-05:00 Ethically Marketing Your Law Practice April 8, 2019 5:30 p.m<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">April 8, 2019<br />5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<br />New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Learn how to make more money by ethically marketing your practice...and staying ethically compliant!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA Senior Lawyers Special Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">This program will demonstrate proven techniques for promoting your practice while staying within the ethics rules whether you handle cases in Municipal Court or in other areas of law.</span><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Featuring:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Kenneth A. Vercammen, Esq., K. Vercammen & Associates, Edison, Author ABA’s </span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Smart Marketing and the Small Firm Lawyer</span><span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Carol Johnston, Esq., Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, Trenton<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Program Agenda:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">5:30 Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">6:00 Ethical websites <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">6:05 Ethical considerations of social networking <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">6:30 Overview of ethics of marketing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;"> Relevant RPCs, opinions and cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">7:00 Break<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">7:10 Overview of ethics of marketing (continued)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Permitted testimonials, rules regarding “Super Lawyers” and ratings, restrictions on the use of “expertise” and “specialized” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">8:00 Blogs, event calendars, articles and other types of promotion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">8:20 Q&A: Ask the Experts<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">8:30 Adjourn <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">• <b>An Overview of the Ethics of Marketing </b>- a discussion of information that is and is not permitted to be communicated to potential clients. An overview of relevant RPC’s, ethics opinions and cases that refer to ethical communication with potential clients, including<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">Opinion 39, 42 and 43 and RPC 7.1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">• <b>Ethical Websites </b>- do’s and dont’s as to how your website can attract the most clients while staying within the ethics rules. Topics will include imagery, testimonials and design.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">• <b>The Ethical Considerations of Social Networking </b>- a focus on how to ethically grow your practice through on-line networking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">• <b>The Ethical Considerations of In-Person Networking </b>- This will review what you can and can’t say in person, conflicts of interest and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">• <b>Blogs, Event Calendars, Articles and Other Types of Promotion </b>- Some proven techniques for marketing and rainmaking that go beyond the conventional but stay within the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">Moderator/Speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">Kenneth A. Vercammen, Esq.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">Certified by the Supreme Court of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">New Jersey as a Municipal Court<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">Past Chair, NJSBA Municipal Court<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;">Past NJSBA Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.546667098999023px;">K. Vercammen & Associates (Edison)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt; padding: 0in;">Carol Johnston, Esq.</span></b><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2017 NJICLE Distinguished Service Award Recipient</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Staff/Counsel, NJ Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Staff/Counsel, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on </span>Attorney<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Advertising</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Staff/Counsel, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the </span>Unauthorized<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Practice of Law</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NJ Supreme Court, Trenton</span></span><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> Smart Marketing and the Small Firm Lawyer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">List Price: $59.95 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> Author(s): Kenneth A Vercammen Sponsor(s): Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division Publisher(s): ABA Book Publishing ISBN: 978-1-62722-484-0 Product Code: 5150468 2014, 156 Pages, 7 x 10 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> Marketing is essential to the growth of any enterprise. There are many low-cost and no-cost opportunities that exist. This video explores today’s marketing landscape and outlines its many facets for you in concise and easy to understand terms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> Any business owner will tell you that marketing is vital to the success and growth of a venture, and a law practice is no exception! This book thoroughly explores today’s marketing landscape and outlines its many facets for you in concise and easy to understand terms. This ABA book </span><span style="font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">“Smart Marketing for Smart Firm Lawyers” </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">covers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">*Creating a blog for free *How to leverage a wide array of social networking sites (like Facebook, Martindale Hubble, Yelp, etc.) *Best practices for marketing within the law office *Low-cost and no-cost marketing activities *Tips to increase your efficiency and reach * and more!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">Included with this book is a helpful CD-ROM with digital copies of all the exhibits used in the book and the various websites that are referenced. Learn how to make the most the marketing opportunities that exist with <i>Smart Marketing for the Small Firm Lawyer</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Geneva; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"> Praise for Smart Marketing for the Small Firm Lawyer: "Vercammen's new marketing book belongs in the tool box and library of every lawyer regardless of firm size. Ken not only tells the lawyer WHAT to do, he shows the lawyer HOW to do it." Jay Foonberg Author of How to Start and Build a Law Practice, 5th Ed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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