In re J.W.

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 5142

Syllabus

A children services agency has made reasonable efforts to reunify a family where a case has been going on for several years and multiple attempts at reunification have been made. That an agency has not conducted a formal kinship placement study for a relative does not mean that the agency has failed to make reasonable efforts where the agency believed that the relative would not pass the study. Granting permanent custody to a children services agency may be in a child's best interest where the issues that led to the child's removal have not been addressed and the relative caring for the child is unable to parent the child properly.