In re C.M.

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 2087

Syllabus

Permanent custody; continuance; due process; guardian ad litem for a parent; mentally incompetent; best interest of the child. Trial court did not violate mother's right to due process even though it denied her request for a continuance and did not appoint a guardian for her because she failed to provide good cause for a continuance and there was no evidence that she was mentally incompetent. Trial court's findings in support of permanent custody were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the evidence showed that the children had been in uninterrupted agency custody for two and a half years, mother failed to remedy the conditions that caused the children to be removed, the children could not be placed with either parent within a reasonable time, and no relatives or interested persons were able to take custody of the children.