Cohabitation Investigations
A NJ Cohabitation Investigator That Knows the Law
Have you been ordered to pay alimony as part of your divorce settlement? Alimony, also known as spousal support, is necessary for some divorce actions. Alimony is paid above and beyond child support and helps the low-earning spouse reach their daily living expenses. However, some people try to take advantage of the law and commit spousal support fraud. If this is the case you need a New Jersey Private Investigator you can trust.
Cowan Investigations is the go to New Jersey Private Investigator Firm for those who suspect alimony fraud due to an ex-spouse’s cohabitation. Cowan Investigations has handled and been successful in multiple high value Cohabitation Investigations. In fact, Cowan Investigations is the go to private detective firm for law firms throughout New Jersey.
Cowan Investigations has cutting-edge technology available to clients, which can drastically reduce surveillance costs in Cohabitation Investigations. In many instances Cowan Investigations can deploy “unmanned Surveillance” which will improve on our evidence collection ability in Cohabitation Investigations. No longer do our New Jersey Private Detectives have to constantly be deployed into the field to obtain evidence of alimony fraud. Cowan Investigations now has the technology to deploy live-streaming concealed cameras into the field to collect evidence. The unmanned surveillance camera run seven days a week and twenty-four hours a day.
Now you say to yourself, concealed cameras are not new, well, you would be half right. Cowan Investigations has the concealed camera technology for quite some time, but now this investigative tool has been refined and improved. Our New Jersey Private Investigator Firm can view the property being surveilled in real-time through our new cutting-edge cellular live-streaming concealed cameras. This type of technology provides valuable information 0pening up the potential for efficient and effective targeting of actual field investigation which is always advisable to supplement the “unmanned surveillance”. The unmanned surveillance can capture video twenty four hours a day seven days a week.
This cutting-edge concealed camera unmanned surveillance technology makes our New Jersey Cohabitation Investigations much more financially efficient for our clients. The proper deployment of these live-streaming concealed cameras is changing how New Jersey Cohabitations investigations are conducted. Do not hesitate to contact Cowan Investigations to learn more about our new remote live-streaming hidden unmanned surveillance cameras. This new concealed camera technology will increase our surveillance footprint while drastically reducing costs to our clients for obtaining evidence.
Cowan Investigations has saved our client’s millions of dollars in fraudulent alimony payments. Our New Jersey Private Investigator Firm has not only been recommended to clients by past attorneys’ we had worked for, but also many attorneys’ where we have successfully investigated their clients. There are multiple investigative methods our New Jersey Private Detective Firm will institute to successfully handle your Alimony Fraud Investigation. It is not just one method, the Cohabitation will more than likely end up with a hybrid investigation.
The structure for an investigation using our unmanned concealed camera cohabitation investigation will always be required to have an in-person surveillance investigation to support the hidden camera investigation. Ordinarily the in-person surveillance will be to support and create a foundation for the identifications made by our NJ Private Detective Firm as to who and what we are seeing at the property being surveilled, such as persons and vehicles. Cowan Investigations will also separate your investigation to be conducted over several months as opposed to one month; proving cohabitation requires a somewhat lengthy period of time that the subject’s of the investigation need to be observed; in order to anticipate defenses that the subject’s attorney may raise.
It is extremely important when considering which New Jersey Private Investigator Firm to retain you be very careful of the evidence processing other New Jersey Detective Firms might use. In fairness most New Jersey Private Investigator firms are honest and competent professionals, however, as in any business or organization there are a few outliers. There are private investigator firms that will use unlicensed offshore cheap labor to handle the video processing and careful review that is needed to evaluate the evidence. By not using properly licensed NJ Private Investigators to evaluate and secure such evidence you risk having the proof produced being rejected by the NJ Family Courts. Another risk to your retaining of an unethical private Detective Firm would be that an unknown and unlicensed person from outside the United States that potentially broker your information and the subject’s which could be devastating to your investigation. Just imagine what could happen if an offshore unlicensed investigator whose background has not been assessed properly misuses either your information or the subject’s obtained through their work on your case; such as the name and address of the subject.
If you are to hire a NJ Private Investigator for your Alimony Investigation, insist that the Private Detective Firm include in their retainer a disclaimer indicating only properly licensed and vetted New Jersey Private Investigators will be used to handle and evaluate all evidence collected.
Until recently, reducing or stopping alimony payments was difficult in the State of New Jersey. But in 2014, the state passed a bill that implemented long-overdue changes to the Alimony Law that leveled the playing field, as it relates to cohabitation. Per the new law, even if the one receiving alimony is in a relationship with someone who maintains a separate residence, it is still possible to prove cohabitation and revoke the alimony you have paid as a violation of the divorce agreement.
If you suspect your ex-spouse is committing spousal support fraud, our investigators can help. Our team of veteran investigators can collect Real Time Live Streaming Concealed Camera HD Video, Private investigation, background documentation, Motor Vehicle Records, and other court-admissible evidence to help reduce – or stop – alimony payments.
Per the 2014 statute, a court may suspend or terminate alimony if the payee cohabitates with another person. Pursuant to the law, cohabitation involves an intimate, mutually supportive personal relationship in which a couple has undertaken privileges and duties that are commonly associated with marriage or civil union but does not necessarily maintain a single common household.
When assessing whether cohabitation is occurring or not, the court will consider the following:
(1) Intertwined finances, including joint bank accounts and other joint liabilities or holdings;
(2) Sharing or joint responsibility for living expenses;
(3) Recognition of the relationship in the couple’s family and social circle;
(4) Living together, frequency of contact, duration of the relationship, and other indicia of a mutually supportive and intimate personal relationship;
(5) Sharing in household chores;
(6) Whether the recipient of alimony received an enforceable promise of support from another person within the meaning of subsection h. of R.S.25:1-5 (“palimony”); and
(7) All other relevant evidence.
In evaluating whether cohabitation is occurring and if alimony should be terminated or suspended, the court will also consider the length of the relationship. A court may not find an absence of cohabitation solely on the grounds that the couple does not live together on a full-time basis.
In this retainer, we affirm that whether we are the primary provider of concealed camera services or, if the primary provider of concealed camera services, if acting as a subcontractor for Cowan Investigations, we will always operate pursuant to the law, and Cowan Investigations, will specifically do the following:
1. Cowan Investigations will not use personnel who are not licensed private investigators in the State of New Jersey or/who are not properly operating under the license of a New Jersey Private Investigation Firm. If an employee examines video and or photos from a concealed camera, that employee will be appropriately registered with the New Jersey State Police with all of their background protocols being followed when being registered under the license of the primary provider of concealed camera services.
2. Cowan Investigations will only use Licensed New Jersey Private Investigators or those appropriately acting under the license of a New Jersey Private Investigator to process the contents of videos or still photos obtained by the deployed concealed camera.
3. Lastly, Cowan Investigations will not use personnel outside of the United States (offshore) to process concealed camera video/photos in any manner if the handler is not explicitly licensed and or is appropriately licensed and registered under the license of a New Jersey Private Investigation Firm.