Richard Diamond
Certified Divorce & Family Law Trial Lawyer by the NJ Supreme Court
Richard Diamond has been practicing Family Law Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration work in New Jersey for the past 37 years and is a Certified Family Law Trial Attorney by the N.J. Supreme Court; Accredited New Jersey Family Law Mediator, authorized by the NJ Supreme Court to handle family law mediation matters with an active domestic violence restraining order in place and a Family Law Arbitrator.
Mr Diamond is also a Family Law Economic Mediator in Union, Essex, Morris, Somerset, Middlesex and Monmouth Counties.
Mr Diamond is also a member of the Essex, Union and Somerset County's Family Law Early Settlement Panel Program (ESP); a member of Who's Who in American Law; listed in Best Lawyers in America and a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for Family Law accomplishments.
Diamond & Diamond limits is practice to divorce, post divorce matters, child custody disputes, domestic violence representation, child support & alimony claims, business valuations in divorce, and prenuptial agreement drafting & review.
The firm also actively represents litigants in the NJ Family Court system in Somerset, Morris, Union, Essex, Middlesex, Passaic, Bergen, Monmouth, & Ocean Counties and regularly appears before the family part judges in each of those counties.
- Seton Hall University School of Law
- J.D. (1985) | Law
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- Rutgers University - Newark
- B.A. (1981) | Economics / Business Administration
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- Honors: Dual Degree
- SENIOR PARTNER
- DIAMOND & DIAMOND P.A.
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- Handling Divorce Cases from Start to Finish, Continuing legal Education Seminar, NJ
- National Business Institute
- On an annual basis, Mr Diamond has participated in legal seminars as an author and lecturer on various family law topics involving Domestic Violence matters, Child Custody proceedings, Divorce, & Valuation of Businesses in Divorce matters
- Accredited Family Law Economic Mediator with Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in Place
- New Jersey State Bar
- CERTIFIED FAMILY LAW TRIAL ATTORNEY
- New Jersey Supreme Court
- Accredited Family Law Mediator
- New Jersey Superior Court System
- 2019 Award for New Jersey Family Law Attorneys
- Lawyers of Distinction
- Lifetime Charter Member
- Rue Ratings Best Attorneys of America
- 10 Best Family Law Firms in New Jersey
- American Institute of Family Law Attorneys
- N.J. Best Lawyers for Families
- New Jersey Family Magazine
- Certified Matrimonial Trial Lawyer by the NJ Supreme Court
- NJ State Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar - Family Law Section
- Member
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- Essex County Family Law Early Settlement Panelist
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- Somerset County Family Law Early Settlement Panelist
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- Union County Family Law Early Settlement Panelist
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- Florida
- New Jersey
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
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- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation, Family - Arbitration/Mediation
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Certified Attorneys
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. If I do not agree with the Judge's decision in my divorce trial, can I file an appeal or sue my ex-husband?
- A: If the trial is over and the court has ruled on all issues outstanding and has issued a decision ( from the bench or in writing), you have the right to seek an appeal of his rulings to the appellate division. There is a specific time frame for the filing of an appeal, specific documents that must be filed, etc - so this is not the type of matter that you should ever consider doing without an experienced divorce lawyer, who regularly handles appellate matters. It is also expensive to file an appeal, so be prepared to spend money on the process.
- Q. Why after 7 years of being a fit mother and filing half a dozen times for joint custody, I still don't have it?
- A: I understand your frustration but there are pieces to this story that are missing and the best advice I can give you is to sit down with an experienced divorce lawyer to review the history of the court orders entered in your matter and review the certifications filed in support of your requests and in opposition to your requests. Once a lawyer has reviewed those documents, he / she will be in a better position to advise you how to move forward more constructively.
- Q. If we did a pre-nup doc but just signed it ourselves (as a couple, no lawyer/notary), can we get it notarized later on?
- A: I understand the question and the short answer is that you can try to find a notary that is willing to sign the document acknowledging your respective signatures. If you and your spouse talk with the notary and acknowledge that the signatures affixed to the document are your signatures, the notary may be willing to rely on that information to notarize the document for both of you, but I presume that the notary will use today's date for notary purposes - which might not mean anything to you and your partner.