Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Oct 29, 2007 20:09:02 GMT -5
Judge fed up with bickering McGreeveys
by Judith Lucas
Monday October 29, 2007, 5:37 PM
The family court judge presiding over the bitter divorce of former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey and estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey harshly chastised the couple today, pleading with the pair to consider the impact on their 5-year-old daughter.
"If I've said this once, I've said it a thousand times -- please, please think of her," Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy said this afternoon, following a four-hour court session in which no progress was made toward agreements in the case. "I used to be hopeful about this case. I'm no longer hopeful."
Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger
Former Gov. James E. McGreevey appears in court today.Attorneys for the couple remain at odds over alimony and custody of 5-year-old Jacqueline. Despite four hours of closed-door discussions in Superior Court in Elizabeth, they did not arrive at any compromises as brokered by a parenting coordinator the judge assigned to the case.
When the couple appeared in open court after the attorneys' talks, the visibly frustrated judge told them about how her own 9-year-old daughter had learned in school how to look herself up on Google, the Internet search engine. Cassidy said she lamented the day when Jacqueline will Google herself.
She scheduled the next hearing in the case for Nov. 16.
Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger
Dina Matos McGreevey appears in court today with her lawyer John Post.The couple married in 2000, and McGreevey was elected governor in 2001. He resigned in disgrace in August 2004 after admitting to an affair with a male staff member and proclaiming that he is a "gay American."
McGreevey later moved to Plainfield, while Matos McGreevey settled in nearby Springfield with Jacqueline.
McGreevey filed for divorce in February. In September, Matos McGreevey got her support payments doubled to $2,500 a month. She wanted $4,000 and McGreevey wanted to pay $1,129. Both have written tell-all books about their doomed marriage.
Cassidy has set a trial date for May of next year but repeatedly urged the McGreeveys to come to some agreement before then.
by Judith Lucas
Monday October 29, 2007, 5:37 PM
The family court judge presiding over the bitter divorce of former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey and estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey harshly chastised the couple today, pleading with the pair to consider the impact on their 5-year-old daughter.
"If I've said this once, I've said it a thousand times -- please, please think of her," Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy said this afternoon, following a four-hour court session in which no progress was made toward agreements in the case. "I used to be hopeful about this case. I'm no longer hopeful."
Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger
Former Gov. James E. McGreevey appears in court today.Attorneys for the couple remain at odds over alimony and custody of 5-year-old Jacqueline. Despite four hours of closed-door discussions in Superior Court in Elizabeth, they did not arrive at any compromises as brokered by a parenting coordinator the judge assigned to the case.
When the couple appeared in open court after the attorneys' talks, the visibly frustrated judge told them about how her own 9-year-old daughter had learned in school how to look herself up on Google, the Internet search engine. Cassidy said she lamented the day when Jacqueline will Google herself.
She scheduled the next hearing in the case for Nov. 16.
Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger
Dina Matos McGreevey appears in court today with her lawyer John Post.The couple married in 2000, and McGreevey was elected governor in 2001. He resigned in disgrace in August 2004 after admitting to an affair with a male staff member and proclaiming that he is a "gay American."
McGreevey later moved to Plainfield, while Matos McGreevey settled in nearby Springfield with Jacqueline.
McGreevey filed for divorce in February. In September, Matos McGreevey got her support payments doubled to $2,500 a month. She wanted $4,000 and McGreevey wanted to pay $1,129. Both have written tell-all books about their doomed marriage.
Cassidy has set a trial date for May of next year but repeatedly urged the McGreeveys to come to some agreement before then.