BOMB THREAT CLOSES ROAD IN RUMSON

No details of the threat have yet been made available.

The red brick building is owned by Thomas and Christine Giamio, according to property records.

Other records indicate that Thomas V. Giamio has a personal-injury law practice there, though no sign is visible from the exterior.

[UPDATE: 11:30 a.m.] After the scene was checked out by a bomb-sniffing dog from the Monmouth County Sheriff’s office, the scene has been cleared.

Referring to the initial police call, which said a bomb threat had been left on the business’s answering machine, Tobias told redbankgreen he might have more information in an hour or so.]

06.23 - Month of the Horse program at Eastern Branch Library H. Robb Levinsky of Kenwood Racing, one of the top thoroughbred stables at Monmouth Park, hosts 'The Status of Horse Racing in New Jersey,' as the second in a series of presentations celebrating the Month of the Horse, at the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library in Shrewsbury. In addition, an exhibit of images by Monmouth Park official photographer Bill Denver will be on display at the library throughout the month of June. 06.23 - Thursday Night Band Nights The Fixx spotlights 'New Jersey's Hottest New Bands' each week til closing. 06.23 - ANNIE Little Orphan Annie, Daddy Warbucks, Sandy, Miss Hannigan — they're all back, as producer Mark Fleming and his Premier Theatre Company kick off a new summer season of shows with this classic of modern Broadway, presented once again inside the Henderson Theater at CBA in Lincroft. 06.23 - Quincy Mumford & the Reason Why The local fave singer/ songwriter and his band inaugurate a new Thursday night tradition at Jamian's Food & Drink. 06.23 - Rock N Roll Karaoke The band from NYC's Arlene's Grocery hosts this popular weekly feature at The Downtown, in which civilian hopefuls can front a hard—rocking combo on any of a couple hundred classic rock favorites. 06.24 - Red Bank Elks Fireworks Party RESERVE NOW for JULY 3. Enjoy the KaBoomFest fireworks from 'the best spot in town' — Red Bank Elks Lodge 233 on West Front Street — with the annual party right on the Navesink. 50 dollars admission allows to avoid the crowds and enjoy all you can eat steak, chicken, ribs, and more as well as draft beer and wine (kids ticket prices vary). Must purchase tix in advance from the Elks Lodge; click for link to further info. 06.

Ruth Institute Blog » Why No Adoption in the DE case? Does it Matter?

I haven’t seen many details on the  Delaware case I posted the other day.  But one fact is clear: the non-mother in same sex couple did not do a second party adoption. If she had done an adoption, she would have the same parental rights as the woman who went to Kazakhstan to adopt the child in the first place.  With a second party adoption, there would be no case here at all. According to the story, “Delaware does allow such adoptions, and Guest intended to file those papers later.”  

She “intended” to file for adoption, but never did.  We can only speculate as to why.

1. Maybe she just didn’t get around to it, and there was no other reason.

2. Maybe she didn’t really want to.  Maybe she only wanted to after the sexual relationship broke up, and she wanted to be vindictive.  Dissolving sexual relationships can bring out the worst in people.

3. Maybe the adoptive mother decided, all things considered, that she didn’t want to allow her child to be adopted by someone else. 

To those of you who are defending this Delaware law, I have a couple of questions.

1. Does it make any difference to you, which of these reasons accounts for Guest’s failure to file the adoption papers?

2. Does it make any difference to you, whether Guest had a sexual relationship with Smith or not?  And if it does, explain why Guest’s sexual involvement with an adoptive mother should make her automatically a priveleged candidate for adopting her child?

It would be very interesting to know more details about this story. One could make a book length study of this.

It was obviously vastly more time consuming and vastly more expensive to go to court multiple times (all the way to the state supreme court) and to lobby the state legislature than to file the original adoption papers. In contract law, failing to file papers in a timely fashion usually fails to establish the right being sought. A day late and a dollar short, as the saying goes, unless, of course, you can get the legislature to pass a retroactive law to address your particular case.

The theory of retroactive laws and de facto relationships really could take family law in unintended new directions as I commented in the previous thread. These are issues that to my mind are quite independent of gender and sexuality. If the legislature can pass a retroactive law creating new family relationships where no legal relationship previously existed, then we are truly in a brave new world. Surely the rich and powerful now have a new tool in family law, at least in Delaware.

The Southwestern reporter

... forever," executed before the adoption of section 10, art 1, c. ... with all the appurtenances thereon, to the second party, his heirs and assigns, ...

The Northwestern reporter

The material parts of the contract for the improvement of Ellsworth street are that "said first party does hereby agree with said party of the second part ...

New outlook

In Minnesota, however, the People's party became the second party in the State, ... unless the adoption of an anti-silver platform by the next National ...

The Outlook

In Minnesota, howeyer, the People's party became the second party in the State, ... unless the adoption of an anti-silver platform by the next National ...

The district reports of cases decided in all the judicial districts of the State of Pennsylvania

Agreement of adoption. This agreement, made this 18th day of December, AD 1895, ... that if, at any time hereafter, said second party, or either of them, ...