NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT
File No. 25SP000128-270
MALCOLM K. FEARING, III, Trustee of the M. Keith Fearing, Jr. Family Trust u/a/d March 6, 1995,
Petitioner,
v.
GOLDIE MEEKINS, BEULAH H. SHORT a/k/a BEULA H. SHORT AND ANY AND ALL ASSIGNEES, HEIRS AT LAW AND DEVISEES OF GOLDIE MEEKINS, BEULAH H. SHORT a/k/a BEULA H. SHORT, TOGETHER WITH ALL THEIR CREDITORS & LIENHOLDERS REGARDLESS OF HOW OR THROUGH WHOM THEY CLAIM, AND ANY AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF ANY OF THEM OR THE REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 0 BURNSIDE ROAD, MANTEO, DARE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA (Tract 2 of the California Tract in the Commissioners Deed recorded at Book K, Page 281 of the Dare County Public Registry; Dare County Parcel No. 025428000 & 025428001; Dare County PIN No. 978905086871 & 978905195409), OR ANY PROPERTY LOCATED THEREON, Respondents.
TO: GOLDIE MEEKINS, BEULAH H. SHORT a/k/a BEULA H. SHORT AND ANY AND ALL ASSIGNEES, HEIRS AT LAW AND DEVISEES OF GOLDIE MEEKINS, BEULAH H. SHORT a/k/a BEULA H. SHORT, TOGETHER WITH ALL THEIR CREDITORS & LIENHOLDERS REGARDLESS OF HOW OR THROUGH WHOM THEY CLAIM, AND ANY AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF ANY OF THEM OR THE REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 0 BURNSIDE ROAD, MANTEO, DARE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA (Tract 2 of the California Tract in the Commissioners Deed recorded at Book K, Page 281 of the Dare County Public Registry; Dare County Parcel No. 025428000 & 025428001; Dare County PIN No. 978905086871 & 978905195409), OR ANY PROPERTY LOCATED THEREON TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled special proceeding. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows:
Partition of property described as Tract 2 of the California Tract in the Commissioners Deed recorded at Book K, Page 281 of the Dare County Public Registry; Dare County Parcel No. 025428000 & 025428001; Dare County PIN No. 978905086871 & 978905195409
You are required to make defense to such pleading by not later than the 3rd day of July 2026 and upon your failure to do so the Petitioner will apply to the Court for the relief sought.
Respectfully submitted, this 24th day of May 2026.
GALLOP LAW FIRM, PLLC
BY: /s/ Benjamin M. Gallop
Benjamin M. Gallop
N.C. State Bar No. 33932
P.O. Box 2029 (Mailing)
516 64/264 South, Ste. 2 (Office/Shipping)
Manteo, NC 27954
Telephone: (252) 256-3811
Email: bmgallop@galloplawfirm.com
Attorneys for Petitioner
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