Summons – Youth in Need of Care

RAVALLI COUNTY ATTORNEY

Bill Fulbright, County Attorney

Ravalli County Courthouse

205 Bedford Street, Suite C

Hamilton, MT  59840

E-mail: countyattorney@rc.mt.gov

Phone: (406) 375-6750

Fax: (406) 375-6731

MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY

IN THE MATTER OF: A.H., A YOUTH IN NEED CARE.

Cause No. DN 23-06

Dept. 2

SUMMONS / CITATION FOR PUBLICATION

TO: “VERN”  

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Permanent Legal Custody (“the Petition”) regarding, A.H., the child who is the subject of the above-captioned proceedings brought pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 3 of the Montana Code Annotated, has been filed in Cause No. DN 23-06 in Montana Twenty-First Judicial District Court, in Ravalli County by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), located at 108 Pinkney St, Hamilton, MT 59840.

The Petition requests that CFS be granted the following: Terminating the parental rights of the above-named youth’s biological parents and granting CFS permanent legal custody of the youth with the right to consent to the youth’s adoption, guardianship, or other permanent placement.  A copy of the Petition is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Ravalli County, (406) 375-6710 and is hereby served upon you at this time.

The child who is the subject of the proceedings, A.H., was born on November 26, 2010. The child’s mother is Callie Howard. The child’s putative father is Unknown.

NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED to appear at the Status Hearing regarding the Petition that is set on the 19th day of December, 2024 at 2:30 p.m., at the Ravalli County Courthouse located at 205 Bedford St., Hamilton, Montana

YOU ARE FURTHER ORDERED to appear for a hearing on CFS’ petition that is set on the 9th day of January, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. at the Ravalli county Courthouse located at 205 Bedford St., Hamilton, Montana, then and there to show, if any you may have, why CFS should not be granted the requested in the Petition.

NOTICE: Your failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a denial of interest in the child, which denial may result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition.

You have the right to be represented by an attorney in these proceedings. If you are unable to afford an attorney, the Court will have an attorney appointed to represent you.

WITNESS my hand and the Seal of this Court this 26th day of November, 2024.

(SEAL) Paige Trautwein

Clerk of District Court

By: Catherine di Gleria

Deputy Clerk

BS 12-4, 12-11, 12-18-24.

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