This Blog is on Hiatus

This blog is on hiatus until further notice. I have taken a job in New York City, and I am in the process of formulating a new strategy for the blog. I expect to return at some point to provide the same high-quality blog posts I had been writing for nearly a year. Thanks for your continued readership, and I look forward to posting regularly again soon.

The Blog is on Vacation!

The blog will be dark for two weeks as I am on vacation. I will return to regular, daily blogging on June 14.

Happy Memorial Day

Take at least a little time today to salute our veterans.

Dumb Criminals- Ronald McDonald Edition

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13257240

Thieves stole a fiberglass Ronald McDonald statue with a replacement value of about $3,500. I'm sure it took all kinds of derring-do and cunning to steal the statue, but- WHY?

Dumb Criminals- Larry David Edition

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) – A motorist was arrested Thursday for driving in a high-occupancy vehicle lane with a mannequin dressed to look like a passenger, police said.

Investigators said Greg Allen Pringle, 53, was the only human in the car. HOV lanes are open only to buses, motorcycles, vehicles carrying two or more people or hybrid vehicles.

Officer Mark Watters said Pringle was southbound on U.S. 36 between Boulder and Denver. Watters said the mannequin was dressed in a gray sweat shirt and a baseball cap.

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Didn't Larry David have Kramer try something similar to this in Seinfeld? Didn't he himself try something similar in Curb Your Enthusiasm?

Dumb Criminals- Billion Dollar Edition

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There’s no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 (57,000 pound) gold certificate into the United States in January.

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Reminds me of something I've heard many times in this business: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

Adult Adoption

See, generally N.J.S.A. 2A:22-1 et seq.

In order to do an adult adoption, the adopter must be at least ten years older than the adoptee, and there must be some showing that a parent-child relationship exists, rather than there being some sort of financial or other ulterior motive for the adoption.

One of the happiest cases I have ever handled involved an adult adoption. Most times, people come to lawyers because they are faced with problems, and if they are made happy through the process it is often an accident, or at the expense of someone else. Here, we allowed two people to formalize a "parent-child" relationship they had had for a long time, and it made them both happy to know that not only did they recognize it, but the law now did as well.