SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF ORANGE
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
INDEX # EF005874-2025
Original filed with Clerk June 24, 2025
Plaintiff designates Orange County as the Place of Trial.
The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Orange County
Premises:
145 Wawayanda Ave
Middletown, NY 10940
NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING,
Plaintiff,
-against-
KEITH SMALLS, if living, and if he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; CITIZENS BANK, N.A., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE and JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE #1 through #7, the last seven (7) names being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the complaint,
Defendants.
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 day of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Kyle C. McGovern, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Orange County, entered Dec. 8, 2025 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Orange County Clerk’s Office.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the amount of $213,750.00 recorded in the office of the clerk of Orange County on August 14, 2019 in Book 14609 page 472 covering premises known as 145 Wawayanda Ave, Middleton, New York 10940 a/k/a Section 44, Block 2, Lot 6.
The relief sought in he within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.
NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.
Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
Dated: Uniondale, New York
October 28, 2025
Respectfully submitted,
PINCUS & TARAB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PLLC
By Linda P. Manfredi, Esq.
Attorneys for Plaintiff
425 RXR Plaza
Uniondale, NY 11556
516-699-8902
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