In re E.-J. Children

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 1519

Syllabus

CHILDREN – CUSTODY: The juvenile court did not err in awarding permanent custody of the ten-year old child to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services where the decision was supported by competent and credible evidence, and was not against the manifest weight of the evidence: mother did not comply with the protective orders, the child had been removed from the home four times, and mother previously had her parental rights terminated for the child's three older siblings. The juvenile court erred by awarding permanent custody of the three-year-old child to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services as the initial disposition following a finding of dependency where the child, who is in a permanent comatose state, had been transferred, with the consent of mother, to a long-term-care nursing facility: a grant of temporary custody to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services is in the child's best interest because it gives the department time to determine if it is necessary to terminate mother's parental rights in order to keep the child in his current placement.