25-01870S

NOTICE OF ACTION
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA
CIVIL ACTION
Case No. 2025-CC-005243-SC
JAPANESE GARDENS HOMEOWNERS, CORPORATION, INC., a Florida not-for-profit corporation,
Plaintiff, vs.
DEBORAH TAYLOR, deceased; NANCY SWORD, deceased; JANET E. ROBB; JUDITH A. SWORD; CHRISTINE L. SWORD; JOHN DOE and MARY DOE, as Unknown Occupants; and the respective unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and other parties claiming by, through, under or against them, if alive, and if any of the named above-referenced defendants are dead, any heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees, or other persons or entities claiming to have any right, title or interest in and to the property which constitute the subject matter of this action,
Defendants.
To: DEBORAH TAYLOR, deceased; NANCY SWORD, deceased; CHRISTINE L. SWORD; and the respective unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and other parties claiming by, through, under or against them, if alive, and if any of the named above-referenced defendants are dead, any heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees, or other persons or entities claiming to have any right, title or interest in and to the property which constitute the subject matter of this action,
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a lien against the following-described real property in Sarasota County, Florida:
Unit 236, JAPANESE GARDENS MOBILE HOME PARK, a Cooperative situate on the property described in Exhibit “A” and located as shown on Exhibit “B” (Plot Plan) of the Master Form Proprietary Lease recorded in Official Records Book 1544, Pages 1427 through 1454, and the Amended Master Form Proprietary Lease as recorded at Instrument No. 2019033014, all of the Public Records of Sarasota County, Florida
and
1973 Eldorado single wide mobile home, VIN: 3513T
has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on TAMSEN HAYS, Esq. of Wotitzky, Wotitzky & Young, P.A., the Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is 1107 West Marion Avenue, Unit 111, Punta Gorda, Florida 33950 on or before the 3 day of November, 2025, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on the Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a Default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Sarasota County Jury Office, P.O. Box 3079, Sarasota, Florida 34230-3079, (941)861-7400, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven (7) days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.
Dated this September 24, 2025.
KAREN E. RUSHING
Clerk of Courts
(SEAL) BY: G. Kopinsky
Deputy Clerk
Tamsen Hays, Esq.
Wotitzky, Wotitzky & Young, P.A.
1107 West Marion Avenue, Unit 111
Punta Gorda, FL 33950
October 3, 10, 2025 25-01870S

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