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Guides and Articles
Everything written for this site is organized by the question it answers rather than by the date it was published. The guides below cover the questions people ask most often, and the case-type pages cover what a claim looks like in a particular setting.
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Guides
- How long do you have to file a sexual abuse claim in New Jersey? The deadlines, including the age 55 rule and the discovery rule.
- The New Jersey Child Victims Act, and what it changed. What the 2019 reform did, and why the closed lookback window is not the end of the story.
- How institutions are held liable for sexual abuse in New Jersey. Negligent hiring, supervision, retention, failure to report.
- How a civil lawsuit works. The stages, what it costs, and what compensation covers.
- How to report sexual abuse in New Jersey, including anonymously, and why you do not have to.
- Support and resources. Free, confidential services in every county.
- Questions people ask, answered directly.
- The words used in these cases, defined in plain language. Tolling, the discovery rule, vicarious liability, and the rest of the vocabulary that shows up in letters.
By where it happened
Most people search for the setting rather than for a practice area, so the case-type pages are organized that way. Each one explains who can be held responsible in that setting and what a claim involves.
- Schools and teachers and boarding schools
- Clergy and churches
- Daycare and childcare and summer camps
- Doctors and hospitals and therapists and psychiatrists
- Foster care and group homes and juvenile detention
- Youth sports and coaching, hazing and Title IX
- Massage and spas, nursing homes and sex trafficking
- Rideshare, including Uber and Lyft
- Abuse suffered in childhood, whoever brings the claim
- Transgender survivors, where the Law Against Discrimination applies alongside an ordinary claim
By where you are
The office is in Mount Laurel and cases are taken across the state. These pages cover the courts, county agencies and local services that apply where you live, not a second office.
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Cherry Hill, Camden County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Mount Laurel, Burlington County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Camden, Camden County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Camden County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Burlington County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Newark, Essex County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Jersey City, Hudson County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Trenton, Mercer County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Toms River, Ocean County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Atlantic City, Atlantic County
- Sexual abuse lawyer in Vineland, Cumberland County
Why it is not a blog
Sites in this field usually carry hundreds of short posts published over years, most of them written to catch a search rather than to answer anyone. They age, they contradict each other, and they leave a survivor comparing a 2019 article against a 2024 one with no way to tell which is current.
Everything here is organized by the question it answers and updated when the answer changes. When New Jersey’s filing deadlines were confirmed, one page changed and every page that mentions deadlines changed with it, because they all draw from the same source.