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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF KANAWHA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA Adoption Case No.: 22-A-273 NOTICE OF FILING OF ADOPTION PETITION To: MARISSA HALL (or PROCTOR), or ANY OTHER PERSON CLAIMING PATERNITY OF R.F., the minor child, born May 26, 2015, in Charleston, West Virginia. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that, pursuant to the provisions of W.Va. Code 48-22-101, et seq., a petition for adoption of your child, R.F. has been filed in the Circuit Court of KANAWHA County, West Virginia. The petition alleges that you are the child’s biological mother and that you have abandoned her. You are advised that your parental rights to this child may be terminated in the adoption proceeding. If you wish to assert or exercise your parental rights to said child, you must appear and defend the petition on or before January 19, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. or within thirty (30) days following the first publication of this notice, whichever date is later. Your failure to appear and defend with result in permanent termination of your parental rights, and you may not appear in or receive further notice of the adoption proceedings. You are further notified that a final adoption hearing will be held on January 19, 2023 at 1:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, before the Honorable Circuit Judge Bailey, at the Kanawha County Courthouse, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, 25301, and if it be necessary, the petitioner will then and there move the appointment of a discrete and suitable person to serve as Next Friend for your child, to consent to the child’s adoption. Copies of the petition for adoption may be obtained by contacting counsel for petitioners at her address shown below. Erica Brannon Gunn 402 Market Street Spencer WV 25276 Phone: 304.927.6161 Counsel for Petitioner LC-142540 12-16,23;2022