NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF CATAWBA
IN THE GENERAL
COURT OF JUSTICE
DISTRICT COURT DIVISION
JUVENILE DEPARTMENT
NO. 08 JT 181
IN RE: ROBERTS, K. C., A MINOR CHILD
TO: TERRY LAMBERT, RESPONDENT PUTATIVE FATHER, OF THE ABOVE-NAMED FEMALE CHILD BORN TO TABITHA DAWN ROBERTS, ON OR ABOUT THE 19TH DAY OF MAY, 2017, AT CATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, IN CATAWBA COUNTY, HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA;
TO: JOHN DOE, RESPONDENT UNKNOWN UNNAMED FATHER, OF THE ABOVE-NAMED FEMALE CHILD BORN TO TABITHA DAWN ROBERTS, ON OR ABOUT THE 19TH DAY OF MAY, 2017, AT CATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, IN CATAWBA COUNTY, HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA.
TAKE NOTICE that the Catawba County Department of Social Services has filed a Petition to Terminate Parental Rights with respect to the above-described minor child has been filed in the above-entitled proceeding.
You are required and directed to make defense of such pleadings by filing an Answer to the Petition in this proceeding within forty (40) days after the first publication of this notice, exclusive of such date. The Answer must be filed with the Clerk of Superior Court no later than June 26, 2020.
If you are indigent, you have a right to appointed counsel. If you are not already represented by appointed counsel, you may contact the clerk of court immediately to request counsel. You are further noticed that any counsel appointed previously and still representing you in an abuse, neglect or dependency proceeding will continue to represent you unless otherwise ordered by the court. You have a right to attend all hearings concerning your child.
The date, time and place of any pretrial hearing pursuant to G.S. 7B-1108.1 and the hearing on the Petition to Terminate Parental Rights will be mailed by the moving party upon filing of the response to this notice or forty (40) days from the date of this notice if no response is filed.
Upon your failure to file an Answer to the Petition within the time prescribed, the Movant, the Catawba County Department of Social Services, will apply to the Court for the relief sought in the Petition, SPECIFICALLY as to the TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS with respect to the above-described minor child.
This the 16th, day of May, 2020.
Lauren Vaughan
Attorney at Law
Catawba County Department of Social Services
Post Office Box 669
Newton, North Carolina 28658
(828)695-4559
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