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TX-24-02298
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF DALLAS
In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas
Notice is hereby given as follows:
TO: Unknown Heirs of Silvia Cervantes Vasquez, Defendant, address and whereabouts unknown, and any and all other persons, including adverse claimants, owning or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the following described property delinquent to Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit:
STREET ADDRESS:
9518 Eloise St, Dallas, TX 75217;
TAX ACCOUNT NUMBER(S): 00000625585000000;
and
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 17, BLOCK 2/6698, COLE ESTATES, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 13, PAGE 97, MAP RECORDS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS.
Which said property is delinquent to Plaintiff for taxes in the following amounts: $5,081.68 (principal balance only), exclusive of interest, penalties, and costs, and there is included in this suit in addition to the taxes all said interest, penalties, and costs thereon, allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein.
You are hereby notified that suit has been brought by Johnson & Starr, as Agent and Attorney in Fact for Tax Lien Loan SPV, LLC as Plaintiffs, against Silvia Cervantes Vasquez; and Dallas County, City of Dallas, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas College, and Parkland Hospital, as Defendants, by Original Petition filed on December 9, 2024, in a certain suit styled Johnson & Starr, as Agent and Attorney in Fact for Tax Lien Loan SPV, LLC v. SILVIA CERVANTES VASQUEZ, ET AL, for collection of the taxes on said property and that said suit is now pending in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas, 134th Judicial District, and the file number of said suit is TX-24-02298, that the names of all taxing units which assess and collect taxes on the property hereinabove described, not made parties to this suit, are none.
Plaintiff and all other taxing units or transferees who may set up their tax claims herein seek recovery of delinquent ad valorem taxes on the property hereinabove described, and in addition to the taxes all interest, attorney’s fees, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon up to and including the day of judgment herein, and the establishment and foreclosure of liens, if any, securing the payment of same, as provided by law.
All parties to this suit, including plaintiff, defendants, and intervenors, shall take notice that claims not only for any taxes which were delinquent on said property at the time this suit was filed but all taxes becoming delinquent thereon at any time thereafter up to the day of judgment, including all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon, may, upon request therefor, be recovered herein without further citation or notice to any parties herein, and all said parties shall take notice of and plead and answer to all claims and pleadings now on file and which may hereafter be filed in said cause by all other parties herein, and all of those taxing units above named who may intervene herein and set up their respective tax claims against said property.
NOTICE:
You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a-m. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you. In addition to filing a written answer with the clerk, you may be required to make initial disclosures to the other parties of this suit. These disclosures generally must be made no later than 30 days after you file your answer with the clerk. Find out more at TexasLawHelp.org.
You are hereby commanded to appear and defend such suit on the first Monday after the expiration of forty-two (42) days from and after the date of issuance hereof, the same being the day 11th May A.D., 2026 (which is the return day of such citation), before the honorable District Court of Dallas County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse thereof, then and there to show cause why judgment shall not be rendered for such taxes, penalties, interest, and costs, and condemning said property and ordering foreclosure of the constitutional and statutory tax liens thereon for taxes due the plaintiff and the taxing units parties hereto, and those who may intervene herein, together with all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein, and all costs of this suit.
Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court in the City of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, this 23rd day of March A.D., 2026
/s/ Matthew Little
Clerk of the District Court
Dallas County, Texas,
134th Judicial District
ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF
Dylan Schultz
State Bar No. 24103529
Bellamy & Schultz, PLLC PO Box 26128
Austin, Texas 78755-0128
Phi (512) 346-6011
Fax: (512) 346-6005
