STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA COUNTY OF STUTSMAN IN DISTRICT COURT SOUTHEAST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No.: 47-2025-DM-00136 NOTICE OF FILING AND HEARING ON PETITION FOR ADOPTION AND TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP In the Matter of the Adoption Joshua Alan Shell Track, a Minor Child. BRADY THOMAS NORBERT BUTCHER, an individual, Petitioner, v. SHELMAS KNIGHT SHELL TRACK, an individual; The Executive Director, North Dakota Department of Human Services, Respondents. TO: RESPONDENTS SHELMAS KNIGHT SHELL TRACK AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, NORTH DAKOTA: YOU, AND EACH OF YOU, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, that a Petition by the above-named Petitioner for the adoption of the above-named minor has been filed with the Clerk of the District Court of Stutsman County, North Dakota; and YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the above-named Petitioner in his Petition for Adoption has petitioned the Court for the termination of parental rights of the Respondent, Shelmas Knight Shell Track, to said child, Joshua Alan Shell Track, to be henceforth be known as Joshua Michael Norbert Butcher, and this has also been filed with the Clerk of District Court of Stutsman County, State of North Dakota; and YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED, that said Petition will be heard before the Honorable Narum, District Judge of the Court in the Courthouse, City of Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota on the 2nd day of February 2026, at the hour of 11:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard. Dated this 22nd day, December, year 2025. /s/: Brett A. Brudvik (ND ID: 06156) /s/: Dustin L. Hennings (ND ID: 10250) BRUDVIK LAW OFFICE, P.C. 1 N. Main Street, P.O. Box 847 Hillsboro, ND 58045 Telephone (701) 636-4461 Email | dustin@brudvik.law Attorneys for Petitioner. January 2, 9, 16 2026 LHUT0429865