NJ to bar alimony/equitable distribution to killers

The NJ Legislature is considering a bill A2681 which would ban husbands and wives who have been convicted of trying to kill, or consipiring to kill their spouse from an equitable distribution award incident to a divorce proceeding. The bill would also bar a spouse convicted of murder (you think!) or of attempted murder, manslaughter criminal homicide or aggrivated assault from receiving alimony. Further the intended victim would not have to pay their spouses attorneys fees. The bill, if passed would also eliminate a parent’s right to inherit from the estate of their child if the parent abused, abandoned, neglected, endangered the welfare of, or committed any sexual offense against the minor child.
This remedial legislation was spurred on by the 2007 case of Calbi v. Calbi ,396 (NJ SUper 532) where a mother who had beat her child to death in a drunken stupor was awarded alimony from her former husband, the child’s father after her release from prison.