I am curious about a legal notice that recently appeared in my local newspaper. Here is an excerpt (with the names altered):

...JOHN DOE
Plaintiff,
v.
SALLY ROE, and
GREEN ACRES GOLF COURSE,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
You are hereby notified that a suit has been filed against you in the said Court and County by the above-named Petitioner, for the adoption of minor children. ...

What might the reason be for including a commercial entity like a golf course as a co-defendant in an adoption lawsuit?

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

renormalize <nonlocalaction@gmail.com> wrote:

I am curious about a legal notice that recently appeared in my
local newspaper. Here is an excerpt (with the names altered):

...JOHN DOE
Plaintiff,
v.
SALLY ROE, and
GREEN ACRES GOLF COURSE,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
You are hereby notified that a suit has been filed against you in
the said Court and County by the above-named Petitioner, for the
adoption of minor children. ...

What might the reason be for including a commercial entity like a
golf course as a co-defendant in an adoption lawsuit?

Normally when (for example) Person A sues Person B, Person A need to
have the summons and complaint personally served on Person B. But
if, for some reason, that can't happen (after a reasonable number of
attempts and different times of the day), the court can issue an
order of service by publication. That allows service of process to
be complete by, normally, sending a copy of documents in the mail and publishing the summons in a local newspaper.

After that, the lawsuit can proceed in the normal manner, and a court
order can be entered even if Person B never says or does anything.

--
Stu
http://DownToEarthLawyer.com


--
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.
www.avg.com

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

It appears that Stuart O. Bronstein <spamtrap@lexregia.com> said:

renormalize <nonlocalaction@gmail.com> wrote:

I am curious about a legal notice that recently appeared in my
local newspaper. Here is an excerpt (with the names altered):

...JOHN DOE
Plaintiff,
v.
SALLY ROE, and
GREEN ACRES GOLF COURSE,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
You are hereby notified that a suit has been filed against you in
the said Court and County by the above-named Petitioner, for the
adoption of minor children. ...

What might the reason be for including a commercial entity like a
golf course as a co-defendant in an adoption lawsuit?

Normally when (for example) Person A sues Person B, Person A need to
have the summons and complaint personally served on Person B. But
if, for some reason, that can't happen (after a reasonable number of
attempts and different times of the day), the court can issue an
order of service by publication. That allows service of process to
be complete by, normally, sending a copy of documents in the mail and >publishing the summons in a local newspaper.

That all makes sense, but what does it have to do with naming a golf
course as a defendant? Do we think the individual defendant works
there and this is a way of getting her served?

--
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)