(a) Where any nonresident or person unknown claims or owns title to or an interest, present or contingent, in any real or personal property in this state, service on the nonresident or unknown owner or claimant may be made by publication in cases affecting such property in proceedings brought:
(1) To remove a cloud therefrom or quiet title thereto;
(2) To cancel or set aside deeds, mortgages, liens, or encumbrances thereon;
(3) To establish, enforce, or foreclose liens thereon;
(4) To enforce, by decree for specific performance, any contract in reference thereto;
(5) To order the partition thereof by division or sale;
(6) To make any decree or order in which the subject of the action is real or personal property in this state in which a nonresident or unknown person has or may have or claims an interest, actual or contingent, and in which the relief demanded consists wholly or in part in excluding him from an interest therein;
(7) Where a nonresident or person unknown has or may have or may claim a present, future, or contingent interest in any property in this state; or
(8) Where a nonresident or person unknown may have or claim any interest in any trust estate in this state and it becomes necessary or proper or advantageous to order a sale of the whole or any part of the property.
(b) This Code section shall be supplemental to the other provisions in this Code providing for service by publication.
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