A Union County judge has ruled that former Gov. Jim McGreevey must pay child support to his now ex-wife Dina Matos, but does not owe any alimony payments.
Superior Court judge Karen Cassidy issued the ruling this afternoon. McGreevey will have to pay $1,075 per month in child support -- less than the $1,750 requested by Matos.
The ruling also requires that McGreevey pay Matos about $110,000 -- representing half the balance in various accounts he holds. Matos had wanted half of all present and future assets, potentially totaling up to $1 million. But McGreevey does not need to split any earnings from his book, "The Confession", nor for his "alleged celebrity goodwill".
In the opinion accompanying the ruling, Cassidy writes: "Mrs. McGreevey is able to earn a living. Her ability to support herself is hampered by her accrual of significant debt even though she received over $275,000 from a book detailing her experiences with the plaintiff. She is not entitled to a lifestyle commensurate with that of the First Lady of New Jersey."
Neither party must pay the other for legal fees, which totals in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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finally
Our long national nightmare is over...
Judge Lesniak
As expected, Judge Cassidy decided this case not on legal merits, but upon political considerations, which is why the opinion was released this week to coincide with his birthday.
Cassidy may as well should have let Jim McGreevey sign the opinion, because all she does throughout the 44 pages is argue the case of Jim McGreevey, while occasionally conceding a point to Dina McGreevey but then portraying such as besides the point.
In order to come to such a predetermined conclusion, Cassidy, through tortured semantical distinctions, sought to overturn the two cases that governed this case, Mani and Piscipo.
It is quite interesting to read Cassidy assert that the "Celebrity Goodwill" of Jim McGreevey belongs not to McGreevey, but instead to the State of New Jersey, and therefore, Jim McGreevey gets a pass and does not have to pay.
Clearly, there are well established grounds for appeal. The question is, will John Post continue to work the case for 10% down, as he has so far, and if there is an appeal, will the appellate courts just go into the tank for Jim McGreevey just as Cassidy has?
Dina also has to measure the consequences if she DOES NOT appeal.
The Judge and her husband wore her down in those marathon 16 hour mediation sessions, where basically Cassidy refused to conduct a trial until and unless Dina agreed to shared custody. By capitulating, Dina lost, and now she has been set up to be constantly dragged into court for the next 15 years, unless she gives up custody.
All Jim McGreevey, as a licensed attorney, has to do, is write something down and run down to Elizabeth and file it, and every time she has to pay through the nose to hire a lawyer to answer to it.
Also, Dina Matos is good friends with Karen Golding, so she already knows how the Union County Prosecutors Office operates.
Karen Golding was the former girlfriend to Democratic Party leader Joe Cryan. When Cryan decided to take up with a new girlfriend, the Union County Prosecutors office decided to assign every detective they had, and they arrested Karen Golding for stalking Cryan.
You can count on, at the very least, Dina having a DUI conviction in her future.
In that Dina already capitulated once, in the mediation, you can count on Jim McGreevey, and his "close friend" Ray Lesniak to use the full weight and force of all government apparatus at their disposal to pound on Dina until she either gives up her kid, or they break her.
It is going to be ugly, very ugly.
However, you won't be reading about it in the pages of the Star Ledger, and you certainly won't be reading about it on any website operated by the Kushner family. Instead, you will be reading all about how wonderful Jim McGreevey is, and how bigoted and homophobic both you and the public is, if McGreevey isn't put back in public office.
In his self titled autobiography, the Confession, Jim McGreevey details how Star Ledger Editor Jim Willse, during the 1997 campaign, spiked a story about the once favorite prostitute of candidate McGreevey, Myra Rosa, who later died alone, under mysterious circumstances, during the 2001 campaign.
In describing the decision to spike the story, McGreevey said, "In the end Willse made the decent call."
Look for Jim Willse and the Star Ledger, and for PolitickerNJ, to put the best interests of Jim McGreevey and the New Jersey State Democratic Party above all else, again, and again and again.
Eric Gallagher
www.redyankeepress.com
Anther Democrat nightmare begins
It must be flight of the Liberal Metrosexual week. Edwards ( The Brett Girl) admits to an affair after years of lying. One just wonders what is in Baracks closet ?
Perspective
On the rbight side....Dina finally got screwed by Jim. Add in the Judge and it was a threesome just like the good old days.
Kennedy
Maybe Jimmy Kennedy will help out his buddy?