In re B.M.

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 1112

Syllabus

The juvenile court did not err by granting permanent custody of the children to a children's services agency as such decision was supported by sufficient evidence and not against the manifest weight of the evidence where father failed to remedy the cause for the children's removal and where permanent custody was in the children's best interest. Father failed to show that his counsel provided him with constitutionally ineffective representation at the permanent custody hearing, as counsel's decisions not to cross-examine the guardian ad litem, not to introduce one of father's adult children as a witness, and not to give a closing argument amounted to trial strategy and father could not demonstrate any prejudice resulting from those decisions.