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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FOURTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 10-2024-DR-82 DIVISION: F IN THE MATTER OF THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS FOR THE PROPOSED ADOPTION OF MINOR CHILD K.B.R. DOB: 05/13/2014 NOTICE OF ACTION AND HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS PENDING RELATIVE ADOPTION TO: BISAH TENNISON Date of Birth: 11/24/1991 Race: Black Description: Brown hair, brown eyes Address: unknown Last Known Residence Address: 8951 McCutchins Drive #7103 McKinney, Texas 75070 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Verified Petition for Termination of Parental Rights for the Proposed Relative Adoption of a Minor Child has been filed by Jennifer B. Williams, Esq., Elizabeth R. Ondriezek, P.A., Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, regarding the child born on 05/13/2014 in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. The birth father is BISAH TENNISON. A Verified Petition for Termination of Parental Rights for the Proposed Relative Adoption of a Minor Child has been filed. There will be a hearing on the Verified Petition for Termination of Parental Rights for the Proposed Relative Adoption of a Minor Child on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM before The Honorable Gary L. Wilkinson in Chambers, Room #4-093 of the Clay County Courthouse, 825 N. Orange Avenue, Green Cove Springs, Florida 32043. The Court has set aside fifteen (15) minutes for the hearing. You must appear at the hearing on the date and time specified. If you elect to file written defenses to said Petition you are required to serve a copy on the attorney for the Petitioners, Jennifer B. Williams, Esq., 3829 Atlantic Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida 32207, Phone number: (904) 396-3900 by no later than MAY 17, 2024, and file the original response or pleading in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clay County, Florida, 825 N. Orange Avenue, Green Cove Springs, Florida 32043, Phone number: (904) 284-6302. UNDER SECTION 63.089, FLORIDA STATUTES, FAILURE TO TIMELY FILE A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE AND THE PETITION WITH THE COURT AND TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING CONSTITUTES GROUNDS UPON WHICH THE COURT SHALL END ANY PARENTAL RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE OR ASSERT REGARDING THE MINOR CHILD. Dated at Clay County, Florida this 2nd day of April, 2024. Clerk of the Circuit Court By: Jennifer Brosky 04/02/2024 Deputy Clerk 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7 THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF COLLIN CITATION BY PUBLICATION 003-00461-2023 TO ANY SHERIFF OR ANY CONSTABLE OF ANY COUNTY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, GREETINGS: TO: GRADY TAYLOR; MILDRED TAYLOR THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE OF GRADY TAYLOR, DECEASED AND THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED TAYLOR, DECEASED NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: "You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney does not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of forty two days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you. In addition to filing a written answer with the clerk, you may be required to make initial disclosures to the other parties of this suit. These disclosures generally must be made no later than 30 days after you file your answer with the clerk. Find out more at TexasLawHelp.org." GREETING: You are hereby commanded to appear by filing a written answer to the AMENDED PETITION at or before 10:00 o'clock a.m. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance of this citation, the same being Monday the 20th day of May, 2024 at or before 10 o'clock a.m., before the Honorable Lance Baxter in the County Court At Law 3 in Collin County, at the Courthouse in McKinney, Texas. Said AMENDED PETITION was filed on July 13, 2023 in this case, numbered 003-00461-2023 on the docket of said court and styled: THE STATE OF TEXAS VS. GRADY TAYLOR, ET UX. The names of the parties to the cause are as follows: THE STATE OF TEXAS are Plaintiff(s) and GRADY TAYLOR; MILDRED TAYLOR; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE OF GRADY TAYLOR, DECEASED; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED TAYLOR, DECEASED are Defendant(s). A brief statement of the nature of the suit is as follows, to-wit; TO: You are hereby notified that a hearing will be held at 10:00 o'clock a.m., on the first Monday after the expiration of forty-two (42) days from the date of issuance hereof, that is to say Monday, the 13 day of May, 2024, and at the TxDOT Office located at 2205 S. SH 5, McKinney, Texas, to assess the damages due the owner of the property being condemned. Pursuant to Governor Abbott's Disaster Declaration due to COVID 19 and the Supreme Court's Emergency Orders Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, the undersigned Commissioners have set the time and place of hearing the parties and said matters as 10:00 o'clock AM on the 13 day of May, 2024, by telephone or video conference located in said County. Said telephone or video conference may be accessed by calling I 470-485-9413 and entering access code 617 422 359, followed by the pound (#) symbol. Said telephone or video conference may also be accessed on the internet using the information below: Meeting specific URL: meet.google.com/eto-xkoq-cqa Meeting number: 470-485-9413 Meeting password: 617 422 359# This hearing may be recorded or transcribed. The State of Texas filed a Petition for Condemnation with the Judge of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County, Texas, on the 13 day of July, 2023, in Cause No. 003-00461-2023 which is styled The State of Texas v. Grady Taylor, et ux. The Plaintiff is the State of Texas. The Defendants are: The Unknown Heirs and/or Devisees of the Estate of Grady Taylor, deceased; and The Unknown Heirs and/or Devisees of the Estate of Mildred Taylor, deceased. The name and address of the attorney for Plaintiff is Kobe Osei-Boaten, Assistant Attorney General, P.O. Box 12548, Austin, Texas 78711-2548. This suit is an eminent domain proceeding in which the State of Texas is condemning a tract of land located in Collin County, Texas, containing the property fully described in Exhibit "A" of Plaintiffs Petition for Condemnation filed under the above-referenced cause number. The interests of these Defendants are that they either own or claim an interest in said property, subject to unpaid accrued taxes. You are further notified that you may appear at the hearing before Special Commissioners and present evidence you desire on the issue of damages to be assessed against the State. If you do not appear at the hearing, the Special Commissioners may proceed to assess the damages of the owner of the property be condemned, as is more fully shown by AMENDED PETITION on file in this suit. If this citation is not served within ninety days after the date of its issuance, it shall be returned unexecuted. The officer executing this writ shall promptly serve the same according to requirements of law, and the mandates thereof, and make due return as the law directs. BILL TO: KOBE OSEI-BOATEN ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TRANSPORTATION DIVISION PO BOX 12548 AUSTIN TX 78711-2548 KOBE.OSEI-BOATEN@OAG.TEXAS.GOV Issued and given under my hand and the Seal of said Court, at office in Collin County, McKinney, Texas, on this the 4th day of April, 2024. ATTEST: STACEY KEMP, COUNTY CLERK Collin County, Texas 2100 Bloomdale Road, Suite 12165 McKinney, Texas 75071 972-548-6423, METRO 972-424-1460 EXT. 6423 By: Melissa McCullough, Deputy 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30