A judge’s entering a final divorce judgment and months later filing a written opinion with materially different terms has prompted an appeals court to publish a screed against deferred decisions.

“We admonish trial courts not to engage in the practice of entering final judgments with the mere statement that ‘[t]he underlying opinion will be sent shortly,’” the Appellate Division said in Ducey v. Ducey, A-1066-09.

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