After years of legislative debate, alimony reform arrived in New Jersey on Sept. 10, 2014, when Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill that went into immediate effect and substantially amended various provisions of New Jersey’s alimony law, N.J.S.A. 2A:34-23.
While much of the attention has focused on changes to the durational component of alimony, other substantial changes to the law were made regarding the ability to modify an existing or future alimony obligation in the event of the payor’s retirement, the payor’s down income and the payee’s cohabitation, the last of which is the focus of this article.
