NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Holli Helms, whose whereabouts are unknown, that the Indiana Department of Child Services has filed a Petition for Involuntary Termination of your Parental Rights, and that an Initial/Fact Finding Hearing has been scheduled with the Court for 2/1/2021, at 9:00 a.m.
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Hamilton Circuit Court, One Hamilton Square #337, Noblesville, IN 46060 – 317-776-9635 for an Initial/Fact Finding Hearing on the date and time afore-mentioned and to answer the Petition for Termination of your Parental Rights and with respect to said child.
You have the right to an attorney to represent you in these proceedings. If you request an attorney and the Court determines that you indeed cannot afford to hire an attorney of your choosing, then the Court will appoint an attorney to represent you in this matter.
Throughout these proceedings, you have the right to cross-examine witnesses, to obtain witnesses or obtain tangible evidence by compulsory process, to introduce evidence on your own behalf, and to receive notice of and to attend all termination hearings.
If the Court terminates your parental rights of and with respect to said child, you have a right to appeal that determination and termination of your parental rights.
You are further notified that if the allegations in said petition are true, and/or if you fail to appear at the Initial/Fact Finding Hearing afore-mentioned, the Juvenile Court may terminate your parent-child relationship; and if the Court terminates your parent-child relationship, you will lose all parental rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations including any rights to custody, control, visitation or support in said child; and if the Court terminates your parent-child relationship, it will be permanently terminated, and thereafter you may not contest an adoption or other placement of said child.
YOU MUST RESPOND by appearing in person or by an attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this notice, and in the event you fail to do so, adjudication on said petition and termination of your parental rights may be entered against you by default or otherwise, in your absence, and without further notice.
