Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2015

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division's remand of a trial court's limited duration alimony award ($18,000 per month for eleven years) in a nearly fifteen-year marriage, finding that the appellate panel inadvertently created a bright-line rule - that a fifteen-year marriage is 'not short-term'…

The Court held that the plaintiffs’ engineer could not offer a causation opinion that contradicted uncontroverted testimony that the driver had an unobstructed view when she turned, and that a hypothetical question could not cure the opinion’s lack of factual foundation.