NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS

NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION CAMDEN COUNTY DOCKET NO. F-006861-25 NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO: OTHO HINDS You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon PARKER McCAY P.A., Plaintiff's attorneys, whose address is 9000 Midlantic Drive, Suite 300, P.O. Box 5054, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054-1539, an Answer to the Complaint and any Amended Complaints filed thereafter in a civil action, in which ANTONIO MINNITI is Plaintiff, and OTHO HINDS, et al. are Defendants pending in the Superior Court of New Jersey within 35 days after the date of this publication, exclusive of said date. If you fail to do so, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. You shall file your answer and proof of service in duplicate with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Hughes Justice Complex, P.O. Box 971, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, in accordance with the rules governing the courts. You are further advised that if you cannot afford an attorney, you may call the Legal Services office in the county where you live. If you do not have an attorney and are not eligible for free legal assistance, you may obtain a referral to an attorney by calling the Lawyer Referral Services. The names and telephone numbers of such agencies in the county of venue are as follows: Lawyer Referral Services: (201) 798-2727 Legal Services: (201) 792-6363 This action has been instituted for the purpose of foreclosing a tax sale certificate recovering possession of the lands and premises located at 1256-1258 Kaighn Avenue, Camden, New Jersey, Lot 10, Block 1320. 1. Taxes were assessed against the Subject Property in the name of Otho Hinds for the year(s) 1999, and the said taxes not having been paid, on November 15, 1999, sale of the lands for delinquent taxes, water and/or sewer charges was offered by the Tax Collector of the City of Camden, under and by virtue of the provisions of statutes in such case made and provided of the State of New Jersey, which said sale was conducted in all things according to the provisions of such act. 2. The City of Camden retained the Tax Sale Certificate for the Subject Property, which was recorded in the Camden County Clerk's Office on November 15, 1999, in Book 5208 at Page 0901. 3. Pursuant to the authority in the Tax Sale Law, N.J.S.A. 54:5-1 et seq., the Tax Collector of the City of Camden sold at Tax Sale certain lands and premises located in the Camden City subject to redemption and issued to the City of Camden a tax sale certificate against the Subject Property, under Tax Sale Certificate No. 992628 (the "Tax Sale Certificate"). 4. Notice was afforded to the owner and other parties in interest in accordance with N.J.S.A. 54:5-114.2(b). 5. Pursuant to the authority in N.J.S.A. 54:5-114.2(b), Council of the City of Camden did approve Resolution MC-23:8940 on January 17, 2024, authorizing the assignment of the Tax Sale Certificate on the Subject Property to Plaintiff. 6. On March 4, 2024, the City of Camden assigned the Tax Sale Certificate to Plaintiff by way of Assignment recorded in the Camden County Clerk's Office under Book 12550, Page 1382, for the sum of $5,000.00. 7. All subsequent municipal liens which have been assessed against the Subject Property by the City of Camden have been paid prior to the commencement of this action. 8. More than two years have elapsed since the tax sale without redemption and the Plaintiff is the holder of the Tax Sale Certificate, and taxes and assessments have been accrued and are owing to the Plaintiff since the date of said sale, and Plaintiff is entitled to file this action. YOU, OTHO HINDS, have been made a Defendant for any interest you may have in the subject premises because you are a record owner and for any lien, claim or interest you may have in, to or against the premises. YOU, OTHO HINDS, his/her heirs, devisees and personal representatives, and his, her, their or any of their successors in right, title and interest, have been made a Defendant in the above-entered action because you have or may claim to have some right, title, lien or other interest affecting the real estate being foreclosed by virtue of ownership, inheritance, descent, intestacy, devise, dower, curtesy, mortgage, deed or conveyance, entry of judgment or other legal or lawful right. The nature of which and the reason that you and each of you are joined as Defendants is set forth with particularity in the Complaint, a copy of which will be furnished to you on request addressed to the attorneys of the plaintiff at the above mentioned address. s/ Michelle M. Smith Michelle M. Smith, Clerk Superior Court of New Jersey September 24 2025 LNYS0374783 $69.03