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TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS - JC-000054 - DEEDS

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SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF

TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS HEARING

STATE OF INDIANA

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COUNTY OF KOSCIUSKO

IN THE MATTER OF THE TERMINATION OF

THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP OF:

CRYSTAL DEEDS

(Minor child)

And

CHERYL DEEDS,  MOTHER

GEORGE BESS, ALLEGED FATHER AND

ANY UNKNOWN ALLEGED FATHERS, (Parents)

IN THE KOSCIUSKO  SUPERIOR COURT 1

CAUSE NUMBER:  43D01-1702-JT-000054

    TO:  George Bess and Any Unknown Alleged Fathers:

    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the above noted parent whose whereabouts are unknown, as well as Any Unknown Alleged Fathers, whose whereabouts are also unknown, and who is the alleged father of Crystal Deeds, that the Indiana Department of Child Services has filed a Petition for Involuntary Termination of your Parental Rights, and that an adjudication hearing has been scheduled with the Court.

    YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Kosciusko Superior Court 1, 121 N. Lake Street, Warsaw, IN 46580 - 574-372-2480 for an Initial Hearing on 11/20/2017 at 1:00 PM and to answer the Petition for Termination of your Parental Rights of said child.

    YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if the allegations in said petition are true, and/or if you fail to appear at the hearing, 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 ARE ENTITLED to representation by an attorney, provided by the State if applicable, throughout these proceedings to terminate the parent-child relationship.

    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, an adjudication on said petition and a dispositional decree may be entered against you without further notice.

    THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES is Richard Klinedinst, 2307 E Center Street, Suite B, Warsaw, IN 46580; telephone (574) 267-2576.

    Dated this 12th day of September 2017                 Ann Torpy

Clerk of Kosciusko County

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