LEGAL NOTICE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO PROBATE DIVISION Case No. PA25-05-0032 and PA25-05-0033 IN RE: ADOPTION OF AIDAN JOHNATHON LAND AND WYATT ANTHONY LAND TO: BRANDON RAY SHORT (ADDRESS UNKNOWN.) You are hereby notified that on May 30, 2025 Petitions for Adoption of Minors, Aidan Johnathon Short and Wyatt Anthony Short, who were born on the 6th day of August, 2015 in Cincinnati, OH, was filed in the Butler County Probate Court, John M. Holcomb, Judge presiding, at 101 High St., 2nd Floor, Hamilton, OH 45011 and that the hearing on said petitions will be held before said Court on the 19th day of March, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. It is alleged in said petitions that you, as parents of said children, have failed without justifiable cause to provide more than de minimis contact with the minors for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the filing of the adoption petitions or placement of the minors in the home of the petitioners. It is also alleged in said petitions that you, as parents of said children, have failed without justifiable cause to provide for the maintenance and support of the minors as required by law or judicial decree for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the filing of the adoption petitions or placement of the minors in the home of the petitioners. It is further alleged that it is in the best interest of said children that the adoption petitions be granted. A FINAL DECREE OF ADOPTION, IF GRANTED, WILL RELIEVE YOU OF ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO CONTACT THE MINORS, AND, EXCEPT WITH RESPECT TO A SPOUSE OF THE ADOPTION PETITIONER AND RELATIVES OF THAT SPOUSE, TERMINATE ALL LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MINORS AND YOU AND THE MINOR'S OTHER RELATIVES, SO THAT THE MINORS THEREAFTER IS A STRANGER TO YOU AND THE MINOR'S FORMER RELATIVES FOR ALL PURPOSES. IF YOU WISH TO CONTEST THE ADOPTION, YOU MUST FILE AN OBJECTION TO THE PETITIONS WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER PROOF OF SERVICE OF NOTICE OF THE FILING OF THE PETITION AND OF THE TIME AND PLACE OF HEARING IS GIVEN TO YOU. IF YOU WISH TO CONTEST THE ADOPTIONS, YOU MUST ALSO APPEAR AT THE HEARING. A FINAL DECREE OF ADOPTION MAY BE ENTERED IF YOU FAIL TO FILE AN OBJECTION TO THE ADOPTION PETITIONS OR APPEAR AT THE HEARING. John M. Holcomb, Judge and Ex-Officio Clerk Butler County Probate Court 1-13,1-20,1-27/2026
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