LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLICATION ADOPTION Notice of Filing of Adoption Petition in the Circuit Court of Putnam County, West Virginia To: Justin Thaxton, father OF LHJ, a minor born on January 15, 2013, in Kanawha County, 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, LHJ, has been filed in the Circuit Court of Putnam County, West Virginia, Case no. 25-A-20. 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 September 19, 2025, or within thirty (30) days following the first publication of this notice, whichever date is later. Your failure to appear and defend will result in the permanent termination of your parental rights, and you may not appear or receive further notice of the adoption. A final adoption hearing will be held on September 19, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., before the Honorable Mark Sorsaia, Circuit Judge, at the Putnam County Courthouse, 12093 Winfield Road, Winfield, West Virginia, 25213. Copies of the Petition for adoption may be obtained by contacting counsel for the petitioners at Pritt & Spano, PLLC, 1204 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301. LC-328736 08-09,16;2025
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