LOCKOUTS
No. Two different government orders prevent lockouts at this time.
The State Order
On March 19, 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy issued Executive Order 106, which suspended evictions throughout the state. This is called an “eviction moratorium,” and it means that, except in rare circumstances,
no tenant may be removed from his or her home as a result of an eviction proceeding. The state eviction moratorium will last until two months after Governor Murphy declares an end to the COVID-19 health crisis. The Governor has extended the official public health emergency several times, most recently through Executive Order 231, which will expire on April 17, 2021. Unless the Governor extends the emergency again, or ends it early, the eviction moratorium will therefore last at least until
27 Dec 2020
A family in Toms River, New Jersey, has opened their house to six orphaned siblings to keep them from being separated.
When Rebecca and Robert Kolas decided to become foster parents to two-year-old Ella Fuller in 2013, they later learned she had a one-year-old brother, William, and also brought him home to live with them, according to the
Asbury Park Press.
The couple officially adopted the two children in 2019 and Ella says, “I’m happy they took me in and adopted me because it’s a warm home and I love it here.”
Later in 2019, Rebecca found out that Ella’s older siblings lost their father suddenly, so the couple fostered three of them and a fourth came into their home in September.
Asbury Park Press
Think your house is bustling this holiday season? Try serving dinner to eight growing boys and girls, ages 8 to 20. Try wrapping Christmas presents for a full week. Try juggling this parenthood writ large and a career while your house is under construction because your ever-expanding family has outgrown it.
“It’s nutty, very nutty,” mom Rebecca Kolas said. “When we go around at the food store people look at us like we’re crazy for buying so much food.”
Rebecca, 50, never envisioned this. As the birth mother of three boys, she wanted to adopt a girl. That girl had five siblings who needed a home, and bit by bit, the Kolas family took them in.