LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA
IN RE: THE
ADOPTION OF
BRANDON MEKHI CABINESS, A MINOR CHILD
CASE NO: 2010-013
NOTICE OF HEARING TO ADOPT CHILD
To: The unknown father of Brandon Mekhi Cabiness, a minor.
Please take note that a petition for the adoption of the above named minor child
was born to Shannon Leigh Cabiness on or about the 25th day of November, 1998,
has been filed in the Probate Court for Pickens County, Alabama, Hon. John Earl
Paluzzi, presiding. Please be advised that if you intend to contest this
adoption you must file a written response with the attorney for the
petitioner(s) named below and with the Clerk of the Probate Court, Post Office
Box 370, Carrollton, Alabama 35447 as soon as possible but no later than thirty
(30) days from the last day this notice is published.
Attorney for Petitioner(s) address:
Deanna M. Herring
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 160
Reform, Alabama 35481
LEGAL NOTICE
In the Probate Court for Pickens County, Alabama
The Estate of Doris Gladys Elmore, Deceased
Case No. 2009-084
Letters of Administration on the Estate of Doris Gladys Elmore, deceased, having
been granted to Lewis C. Elmore Jr. on the 16th day of February, 2010, by the
Honorable John Earl Paluzzi, Judge of the Probate Court in and for Pickens
County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby required to present the same within time allowed by law
or the same will be barred.
Lewis C. Elmore Jr., Personal Representative of the Estate of Doris Gladys
Elmore, Deceased
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF PICKENS
NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced
in the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for
its passage and enactment will be made:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
Relating to Pickens County; to provide for a drug enforcement fee in certain
cases in the circuit, district, and municipal courts; and to provide for the
distribution of the fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the
juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Pickens County, a docket
fee, hereinafter referred to as a drug enforcement fee, shall be assessed in
each case. The drug enforcement fee shall be in an amount equal to twenty
dollars ($20) in each non-drug case, seventy-five dollars ($75) in each
misdemeanor drug case, and one hundred dollars ($100) in each felony drug case.
The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: Five dollars
($5) of the fees assessed in each case shall be retained by the clerk of the
court as an administrative fee. Ten dollars ($10) of the fees assessed in each
case in the municipal courts shall be distributed to the appropriate fund
established by the chief of police of the municipality and expended at his or
her discretion for law enforcement purposes. Ten dollars ($10) assessed in each
case in the circuit or district court shall be distributed to the Pickens
County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund for law enforcement purposes. The
remainder of the fee shall be distributed to the Drug Enforcement Fund
established by the district attorney.
Section 2. The drug enforcement fee shall be collected as prescribed in Section
1 in all cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a
penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of
arrest, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whether a
defendant is adjudged guilty or not. The drug enforcement fee shall be in
addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs, and shall not be waived
or remitted unless all other costs and charges of court are waived.
Section 3. The District Attorney for the 24th Judicial Circuit shall establish a
separate fund to be called the Pickens County Drug Enforcement Fund. All sums
collected and deposited into the fund pursuant this act may be expended by the
district attorney for the support of the drug task force that serves the 24th
Judicial Circuit, including, but not limited to, the payment of any and all
expenses incurred by the drug task force, the payment of any matching monies
required under the terms of any grant that may be awarded by any governmental
or other entity for the support of the drug task force, the payment or
supplementing of salaries for personnel of the drug task force, or for any
other law enforcement purpose.
Section 4. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month
following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming
law.
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF PICKENS
NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced
in the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for
its passage and enactment will be made:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
Relating to Pickens County; to amend Section 2 of Act 2007-277, 2007 Regular
Session (Acts 2007, p. 376), to provide further for the collection of the
solicitor's fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 2 of Act 2007-277, 2007 Regular Session (Acts 2007, p. 376),
is amended to read as follows:
"Section 2. The solicitor's fee shall be collected as prescribed in Section 1 in
all criminal cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a
penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of
arrest, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whether a
defendant is adjudged guilty or not. The solicitor's fee shall be in addition
to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs. The solicitor's fee shall not be
waived or remitted unless all other costs and charges of court are waived."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month
following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming
law.
LEGAL NOTICE
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that
certain mortgage executed by Donald E. Hodge and Melinda M. Hodge, husband and
wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for
CTX Mortgage Company, LLC, on the 6th day of February, 2004, said mortgage
recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Pickens County, Alabama, in
Book 178 Page 274; said mortgage having subsequently been transferred and
assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association; the undersigned JPMorgan
Chase Bank National Association, as Mortgagee/Transferee, under and by virtue
of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, will sell at public outcry to
the highest bidder for cash, in front of the main entrance of the Courthouse at
Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama, on April 1, 2010, during the legal hours
of sale, all of its right, title, and interest in and to the following
described real estate, situated in Pickens County, Alabama, to-wit:
A part of Lots 2 and 3 as shown by that certain map of that part of the Town of
Gordo, Alabama, which is recorded in Deed Book 31, Page 526 in the Probate
Office of Pickens County, Alabama, described a follows: From intersection of
the North line of 5th Avenue Northwest with the West line of 5th Street
Northwest said point of intersection being 94 Feet South of the Northeast
corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, Township
20 South, Range 13 West, run West along the North side of 5th Avenue NW for 125
Feet to the point of beginning of herein described property; thence from said
Point of Beginning continue along the North line of 5th Avenue Northwest; South
88 Degrees 30 Minutes West for 175 Feet; thence North 1 Degree 30 Minutes West
for 102 Feet; thence North 88 Degrees 30 Minutes East for 84 Feet; thence North
11 Degrees 56 Minutes East for 68.9 Feet to a point on the East line of said
Lot 3 and on the North line of said Lot 2 as referenced above; thence North 88
Degrees 30 Minutes East along the North line of said Lot 2 for 75 Feet; thence
South
1 Degree 30 Minutes East for 169 Feet to the point of Beginning. Said parcel of
land lies in the East half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, Township 20
South, Range 13 West, in the Town of Gordo, Pickens County, Alabama.
Property Street Address: 538 5th Ave. NW, Gordo, AL 35466
THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD ON AN “AS IS, WHERE IS” BASIS, SUBJECT TO ANY EASEMENTS, ENCUMBRANCES, AND EXCEPTIONS REFLECTED IN THE
MORTGAGE AND THOSE CONTAINED IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE OF
PROBATE OF THE COUNTY WHERE THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY IS SITUATED.
THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT WARRANTY OR RECOURSE, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED AS
TO TITLE, USE AND/OR ENJOYMENT AND WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF
REDEMPTION OF ALL PARTIES ENTITLED THERETO.
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by said
mortgage, as well as the expenses of foreclosure.
The Mortgagee/ Transferee reserves the right to bid for and purchase the real
estate and to credit its purchase price against the expenses of sale and the
indebtedness secured by the real estate.
This sale is subject to postponement or cancellation.
JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association, Mortgagee/Transferee
Cynthia W. Williams
SIROTE & PERMUTT, P.C.
P. O. Box 55727
Birmingham, AL 35255-5727
Attorney for Mortgagee/Transferee
www.sirote.com/foreclosures
128753
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
GREENE COUNTY, ALABAMA
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF BOOKER T. DAVIS, JR.,
Deceased.
CASE NO: CV-2006-79
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL HEIRS
All persons claiming to be heirs of Booker T. Davis, Jr., deceased, who died
intestate on January 4, 2003, while a resident of Greene County, Alabama, must
file their heirship claim in the above Court case by April 23, 2010 or move
thereafter have their potential claims barred.
The Estate of Booker T. Davis, deceased, was filed on March 7, 2003, and an
Heirship Petition by Potential Heirs was filed on October 11, 2006. David T.
Shaw, Attorney at Law, was appointed Guardian ad Litem to represent unknown
and/or unascertained heirs of the decedent on February 3, 2009, and potential
heirs should contact David T. Shaw on or before April 23, 2010 at the address
given below.
This 12th day of February, 2010.
David T. Shaw
Guardian Ad Litem
GRIESS & SHAW, P.C.
Post Office Box 528
315 Main Street
Eutaw, Alabama 35462
Phone (205) 372-9333
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