General Equity – Should You Be Here and What Should You Do When You Are Here?
Date: Dec 17, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $179.00
Non-Member Price: $224.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Equity Jurisprudence
Earn up to 4 credits, including 1.0 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- James A. Paone, II, Esq.
- Certified By the New Jersey Supreme Court As a Civil Trial Attorney
Davison Eastman Muñoz Paone, P.A.
Presenters
- Hon. Mara Zazzali-Hogan, P.J.Ch.
- Monmouth County Courthouse
- Joseph J. Colao, Jr., Esq.
- Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, Hackensack
- Ronald Israel, Esq.
- Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, Roseland
Equity court jurisdiction in New Jersey seems somewhat murky for practitioners who don’t frequent those courts. Equity courts have long played a vital role in the American judicial system, providing remedies where the strict application of law would fall short. In New Jersey, the Chancery Division’s General Equity Part hears a wide range of complex cases—including injunctions, foreclosures, specific performance, fiduciary disputes, and other matters where money damages alone cannot provide justice.
This program offers a practical overview of the jurisdiction, procedures, and substantive issues commonly encountered in general equity courts. Experienced practitioners and a presiding chancery judge will share insights and answer the question – should you be in Chancery Division and what should you do when you get there?
Program Agenda:
- 9:00 | Introduction
- 9:05 | Should You Be Here? - Panel
- R4:31 (a) (1) General Equity
- Common equitable remedies
- Specific performance
- Rescission
- Reformation
- Shareholder/LLC member disputes
- Quiet title
-Constructive trust - CR4:31 (a) (2) (Probate Part & R4:83)
- Will contests
- Will and trust administration
- Probable Intent
- Accounting
- Fiduciary removal
- Guardianships
- Conservatorships - Foreclosures
- Contested matters - Law Division Comparison
- Civil
- Complex commercial
- Law division - Different New Jersey courts including Law Division, Chancery, Probate
- Types of cases in chancery
- Complex commercial
- Foreclosure
- Probate
- Guardianship
- 9:55 | What Gets You Here? – Panel
- Factors
- Pleadings
- Use of Surrogate
- Lack of e-filing in certain cases, etc.
- 10:25 | What Keeps You Here? - Panel
- Ultimate relief
- Motions to transfer
- Jury trial
- Additional discovery time
- 10:55 | Ethics Discussion - Panel
- RPC 1.13 Organization as client
- RPC1.14 Client under a disability
- RPC 3.3 candor toward tribunal
- RPC 3.4 fairness to opposing party and counsel
- 11:45 | Practice in Chancery Court
- Case management
- Motion practice
- Trial
- Flow of case; more involvement by judges; opportunities to settle
- 12:00 | Adjourn
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