The Law Offices of Faudia A. Hameed

The Law Offices of Faudia A. Hameed Faudia A. Hameed Clemenza, Esq., is a family lawyer and certified mediator with her practice in Hackensack, NJ. Torack J.S.C. Koblitz, P.J.F.P. (Ret. J.A.D.)

Faudia is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law- Newark and served as an intern to the Honorable Edward V. (ret.), and as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ellen L. in the Family Part, Bergen County. She is admitted to the New Jersey and New York Bars, as well as the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Faudia is a court-qualified mediator on the roster of medi

ators for economic aspects of family law cases and a member of the Bergen County Bar Association (serving as co-chair of the membership committee and a member of the family law practice committee), Women Lawyers in Bergen, the New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association (serving on the board from 2019 to date), Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey, South Asian Bar Association, the Garden State Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association. She is also a 2012 graduate of The Justice Morris Pashman American Inns of Court, and an alternate Early Settlement panelist in Bergen County. In addition, Faudia serves on the New Jersey State Bar Foundation as a Trustee and as a member of the Court Night subcommittee, on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts (appointed for the 2020-2022 term), on the Supreme Court Family Practice Committee (appointed for the 2021 – 2023 term), is the former Alternate Prosecutor for the Borough of Hillsdale, former Alternate Public Defender for Rochelle Park, Chairwoman of the Bergen County Commission on the Status of Women (elected Chairwoman in 2013 and continuing to date), a member of the District IIA Ethics Committee (2014-2018), and volunteers as a pro bono attorney for Alternatives for Domestic Violence (“ADV”) and North East New Jersey Legal Services. She is also the supervising attorney at Wafa House. In addition, In 2019 she was the recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association Commission on Professionalism in the Law’s Professional Lawyer of the Year award. Her experience in the practice of law is devoted almost exclusively to the areas of matrimonial practice, mediation and domestic relations.

Breaking up can be difficult. Some apps to help make co-parenting easier:
07/23/2020

Breaking up can be difficult. Some apps to help make co-parenting easier:

If you're facing the end of marriage and beginning of divorce, these 7 apps can help with legal issues, sharing custody and getting over the sting.

The proposed GOP tax bill will eliminate what’s called a “divorce subsidy”: alimony will no longer be tax deductible to ...
11/05/2017

The proposed GOP tax bill will eliminate what’s called a “divorce subsidy”: alimony will no longer be tax deductible to the payor or taxed as an income to the payee for divorces after 2017.

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), alimony payments would not be deductible. The provision would eliminate what is effectively a 'divorce subsidy' under current law.

New standard in relocation cases!  Now, the move must be in the child's "best interest" and the burden is on the parent ...
09/07/2017

New standard in relocation cases! Now, the move must be in the child's "best interest" and the burden is on the parent seeking to move:
http://s.nj.com/g4QE9vZ

The new standard focuses on the child's best interests

07/03/2017

Information regarding the court closures:
https://www.njcourts.gov/assets/carousel/ClosingInformation.pdf

Are some parents too poor to care for their children? Do parents have a constitutional right to counsel when their custo...
12/22/2015

Are some parents too poor to care for their children? Do parents have a constitutional right to counsel when their custody is being challenged? Should an indigent mother be allowed to visit her child without having custody? The Supreme Court is poised to rule on these family law issues:

http://www.northjersey.com/mobile/news/n-j-supreme-court-to-hear-child-custody-case-involving-indigent-mother-1.1477922

An indigent mother who did not have an attorney when a judge ordered her 2-year-old daughter taken from her custody and placed with a “financially advantaged” foster family is now headed to the state Supreme Court.

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