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LEGAL NOTICE

DAVID ALTMAN

Attorney At Law

WELTMAN, WEINBERG &

REIS CO., L.P.A.

323 W. Lakeside Avenue

Suite 200

Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1099

Telephone: 1-216-685-1170

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 02CV 1881

JUDGE: JAMES C. EVANS

BANK ONE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE, ASSIGNEE OF VAN DYK MORTGAGE, C/O OCWEN FEDERAL BANK, FSB

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

MARK MALLEN,

DEFENDANTS.

Mark Mallen and Stephanie Mallen, whose last known place of residence is PO Box 8149, Youngstown, OH 44505 and/or Elm Street, Youngstown, OH 44505, each of you will take notice that on the 25th day of June, 2002, the undersigned, Bank One National Association as Trustee, assignee of Van Dyk Mortgage, c/o Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB, filed a Complaint for Foreclosure, and Other Equitable Relief in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas, alleging that there is due to the Plaintiff the sum of $24,662.32 plus interest at the rate of 10.74% per annum from June 1, 2001, plus late charges applicable to the terms of the Note and Mortgage, on a Promissory Note secured by a Mortgage Deed of even date conveying the following-described property, to-wit:

Situated in the City of Youngstown, County of Mahoning and State of Ohio, and known as being Youngstown City Lot No. 4911, according to the latest enumeration of lots in said City, in Wick Park Addition, as shown by the recorded plat in Volume 4 of Maps, Page 31 of Mahoning County Records.

Known for street numbering purposes as 830 Pennsylvania Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44504

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 53-005-319.00

The Plaintiff further alleges that by reason of the default of the Defendant obligors in the payment of said Promissory Note according to its tenor, the conditions of said Mortgage Deed have been broken and the same has become absolute.

Plaintiff prays that the Defendants named above be required to answer and set forth their interest in said real estate, or be forever barred from asserting the same, for foreclosure of said mortgage, marshalling of liens, and the sale of said real estate, and the proceeds of said sale applied to the payment of Plaintiff‘s claim in the proper order of its priority, and for such other relief as is just and equitable.

The Defendants named above are required to answer on or before the 29th day of April, 2003.

WELTMAN, WEINBERG &

REIS CO., L.P.A.

BY:  LARRY R. ROTHENBERG

Ohio Supreme Court No. 0011146,

Attorney for Plaintiff.

Feb 25; Mar 4,11,18,25; Apr 1, 2003  03-00284