Family Law

• Divorce
  Bringing a divorce to trial is a time-consuming and expensive undertaking that requires substantial legal work and preparation. There are exhibits to be gathered and marked, witnesses to be prepared, trial binders to be prepared, and legal briefs that need to be written. Cost savings are another reason why choosing divorce mediation can be highly preferable to litigating your divorce in a courtroom.
• Child Support
  Child support payments cover costs such as food and shelter, education, transportation, personal care, and miscellaneous expenses such as clothing, lessons, and extra-curricular activities among others.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Arguably the most difficult part of any divorce or separation is the impact it will have on the children. That’s why it’s critical to have an experienced family law attorney representing your interests and child custody concerns.
• Paternity
  The New Jersey Family Law Practice. We author and lecture on the complexities involved in representing clients with significant estates, including the treatment of trusts in divorce, business valuation, identifying hidden assets and income, and the protection of separate property. We handle all aspects of custody, visitation, and paternity issues, and do so with the sensitivity each particular case demands. We are the co-authors of
• Premarital Agreement
  At Skoloff & Wolfe, we are empathetic toward our clients’ positions and we bring our knowledge, experience and insight to help each client identify their objectives and how to achieve them.
• Spousal Support
  Not every case has a one-size fits all approach to support. Mediation can provide the parties, their counsel and experts the opportunity to create and craft alimony solutions that are more flexible than a rigid approach that would be taken in a court setting. The goal of resolution will be to address the issues of concern for both spouses and ideally arrive at an agreement that suits the needs of your case and family.
• Legal Separation
  When it comes to parenting responsibilities and child custody, our attorneys bring to bear decades of combined experience to help our clients manage the always evolving factual, expert and legal issues involving children in legal separations and divorce. We understand that there is nothing more important to our clients than the well-being of their children.

Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Our attorneys are also well positioned to represent those who seek relief based on claims of securities fraud, accounting fraud, and fraudulent conveyance.
• Theft
• Restraining Order
  We are prepared to handle all aspects of trade secret and related employment litigation, including litigating critical expedited relief that often arises at the outset of a trade secret disputes and alleged violation of employment related agreements, including pursuing or defending against applications for temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctive relief.
• Money Laundering
  Legal and regulatory compliance data as required for purposes such as know your client, anti-money laundering, and market abuse regulations requirements, or as part of our client onboarding process, which may include passport or other identification data, date of birth, home address, and other due diligence data.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Recruitment – Personal information about job applicants is collected and processed for purposes of screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for positions; record-keeping related to hiring processes; analyzing the hiring process and outcomes; and conducting background checks, where and to the extent permitted by applicable law, which may also be subject to relevant local recruitment privacy policy. If you are hired by the Firm, this data will be transferred to our employee record files for the purpose of your employment. This is necessary in order to take steps at the request of the job applicant in the context of recruitment prior to entering into a contract. In addition, job applicant data and legal and regulatory compliance data may be used as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements.
• Business Disputes
  Lawyers in our litigation department joined Skoloff & Wolfe, P.C. after handling complex business disputes at some of the nation’s largest leading firms. Recognized by the
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  In a victory that received national attention, we successfully defended a hedge fund and an individual against multi-billion dollar civil racketeering and conspiracy claims. Our attorneys have successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in partnership dissolutions, claims for breach of contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, securities and accounting fraud, tortious interference, unfair competition, breach of restrictive covenants, misappropriation of trade secrets, and defense against professional negligence and malpractice. The firm also serves as local counsel or co-counsel to national law firms representing clients in state and Federal Court in New Jersey.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Representing individuals and companies pursuing and defending claims for alleged breaches of employment agreements, including restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements and other post-employment contractual obligations
• Employment Litigation
  Trade secret matters are often intertwined with employment disputes, and our attorneys are experienced with handling claims against former employees for the alleged theft or misappropriation of trade secrets, violation of non-compete agreements, confidentiality agreements and non-solicitation agreements.
• Non-compete Agreement
  Defending the CEO of a global medical technology company against claims for theft of trade secrets and violation of a non-compete agreement;

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Mr. Wolfe’s practice focuses on counseling and representing taxpayers regarding significant real estate matters. He has obtained billions of dollars in tax relief for his clients* and has a comprehensive understanding of New Jersey property tax law.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Jonathan Wolfe, Esq. presented at the NYSBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Fall 2021 Meeting on the topic: "Trust Assets in Divorce: Fair Game or Off Limits?"
• Trusts

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  Property tax appeals are one area where a data-driven approach can lower costs and increase the value of multifamily real estate holdings, particularly in times of unusual revenue pressure.  A property tax appeal, guided by an experienced attorney, can significantly enhance net operating income and maximize a property’s value in the near and long-term.