Family Law

• Guardianship

Criminal Law

• Traffic Violations
  Costigan & Costigan, LLC is committed to obtaining successful results for its clients. In New Jersey, the firm handles traffic violations in Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Burlington, Gloucester, and Ocean counties. Angela M. Costigan, the former municipal court prosecutor for the Town of Hammonton, has dealt with innumerable traffic offenses in her 25 years of practicing law. Our attorneys have the skills and experience necessary to handle each client’s defense.
• Drug Crimes
• Assault
• Homicide

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Transactions

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  In any statutory scheme for the delivery of social benefits, the controlling authority is the legislative intent as expressed by statute. In New Jersey, the delivery of benefits in the form of payment of medical expense for workers’ compensation injuries is set forth in N.J.S.A. 34:15-15, which describes the obligation of the employer or its workers’ compensation carrier for the providing of medical care and its expense. It is the employer who is required to furnish the medical and hospital care in order to cure or restore the petitioner to his pre-accident condition. Consequently, it is the employer or its carrier that has the sole right to choose the treating physician and the facility which will provide that care. The employer is not liable for the cost of unauthorized medical treatment unless it is aware of the need for treatment or has been asked by the employee to furnish same and the employer refuses or neglects to do so.
• Wrongful Termination
  Settlement in wrongful termination and harmful disclosure case in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in which plaintiff was fired from her job in PA because she applied for a competing franchise in another state.
• Employment Discrimination

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
• Land Use and Zoning
• Property Damage
  Motion to dismiss granted by Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County, in favor of the defendant association in property damage dispute on housing related matter pursuant to the case of Bell Tower Condominium Association v. Haffert.
• Condominium Law
  Practice Emphasis: Condominium Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Workers' Compensation Litigation, Municipal Court, Municipal Law, General Civil Litigation, Real Estate, Business and Commercial Transactions and Land Use.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Motion for partial summary judgment granted in mold case in Monmouth County, NJ in which plaintiff's claims of personal injury, as well as all of plaintiff's claims involving property damage to the common elements over which the condominium association had exclusive jurisdiction, were stricken.
• Auto Accidents
• Social Security Disability
  Total disability is defined by Section 36 of the Statute as a physical or neuropsychiatric total permanent impairment caused by a compensable accident or compensable occupational disease, where no fundamental or marked improvement in such condition can be reasonably expected. In this context of permanent total disability, we are talking about a worker who is unable to compete in an active labor market. In all probability, he would be entitled to Social Security disability benefits although the criteria for an award of total disability, under New Jersey Workers’ Compensation, is not the same.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Practice Emphasis: Estate Litigation, Administration, and Planning, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury Litigation, Workers' Compensation Litigation, and General Civil Litigation.
• Power of Attorney

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Foreclosure action. In the context of bankruptcy therefore, the statutory lien for assessments accruing more than three years prior to the filing of a bankruptcy, unless enforced by an action in foreclosure, is unenforceable
• Debt Collection
  Motion to dismiss granted by Superior Court of New Jersey, Somerset County, in favor of the association and property manager against the plaintiff in a fair debt collection and failure to repair property damage matter.