Summons For Service

SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS
UNKNOWN MOTHER HEARING
STATE OF INDIANA
SS
COUNTY OF Whitley
IN THE Whitley Circuit Court
CAUSE NUMBER: 92C01-2401-JT-000002
IN RE THE TERMINATION OF THE
PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP OF:
BMW, (CHILD; a Safe Haven Infant),
AND UNKNOWN ALLEGED FATHER
NOTICE TO UNNAMED PARENT
To: The unnamed putative parent(s) of a male infant that was voluntarily surrendered on 1/1/2024 in Whitley County, Indiana and born on 1/1/2024, or the person who claims to be a parent of the infant.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship was filed in the office of the clerk of Whitley Circuit Court. YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Whitley Circuit Court, 101 West Van Buren Street, Columbia City, IN 46725 - 260-248-3115 for a(n) Termination Hearing on 4/8/2024 at 2:00 PM and to answer the Petition for Termination of your Parental Rights of said child.
YOU MUST RESPOND If the unnamed putative parent seeks to contest the petition to terminate the parent-child relationship of the infant, the unnamed putative parent must file a motion to contest the petition in accordance with IC 31-35-1.5-8 in the above-named court within twenty-eight (28) days after the date of service of this notice.
This notice may be served by publication.
You are further notified that if the unnamed putative parent does not file a motion to contest the petition within thirty (30) days after service of this notice, the above-named court shall hear and determine the petition to terminate the parent-child relationship.
You are further notified that if the unnamed putative parent does not file a motion to contest the petition within thirty (30) days after service of this notice, the unnamed putative parent's consent is irrevocably implied and the unnamed putative parent loses the right to contest the petition to terminate the parent-child relationship or the validity of the unnamed putative parent's implied consent to the termination of the parent-child relationship. The unnamed putative parent loses the right to establish a biological relationship with the child in Indiana or any other jurisdiction. Nothing anyone else says to the unnamed putative parent of the infant relieves the unnamed putative parent of his or her obligations under this notice.
Under Indiana law, a putative parent is a person who claims that he or she may be the father or mother of an infant who has been voluntarily surrendered but who has not yet been legally proven to be the child's father or mother.
This notice complies with IC 31-35-1.5-5 but does not exhaustively set forth the unnamed putative parent's legal obligations under the Indiana adoption statutes. A person being served with this notice should consult the Indiana adoption statutes.
Clerk
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