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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FOURTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 16-2025- DR-016766-AXXX DIVISION: FM-D IN RE: THE MATTER OF THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF: ELIJAH WAYNE MULLINS IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: ELIJAH WAYNE MULLINS NOTICE OF ACTION OF PETITION AND HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS PENDING ADOPTION TO: Ms. Jaime Leigh Saunders a/k/a Jamie Leigh Saunders Last known address: 26 Workman’s Br. Rd., Madison, WV 25130 Information believed to be a correct description of the individual listed above: Physical description: Age: 41 Race: Caucasian Approximate height: 4’11” Approximate weight: 145 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Joint Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Relative Adoption of your child, Elijah Wayne Mullins, a male child, born on January 2, 2015, at Charleston, West Virginia has been filed in the above-styled case. There will be a hearing on the Joint Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Relative Adoption on the 18th day of December, 2025, at 8:45 a.m., before the Honorable L.E. Hutton, via Zoom video conferencing, Meeting ID: 444 925 2356. The Court has set aside ten (10) minutes for the hearing. You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, on it to the Adoption Entity whose name and address is Michael A. Shorstein, Esquire, Attorneys at Law, P.A., 3821 Atlantic Blvd, Jacksonville, Florida 32207, telephone (904) 348-6400, and file an original with the Clerk of the above-styled Court at 501 West Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32202, telephone (904) 255-2000, on or before November 11, 2025. 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. Witness my hand and seal this 4th day of November, 2025. JODY PHILLIPS CLERK OF THE COURT LH-371433 11-19,26, 12-03,10;2025