In re K.K.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 4376

Syllabus

Sufficiency of the evidence, manifest weight of the evidence, disposition, termination of parental rights, permanent legal custody, R.C. 2151.414, best-interest factors. Mother appeals juvenile court's decision terminating parental rights, awarding permanent legal custody of K.K. to children and family services agency, and denying Mother's motion for legal custody to K.K.s aunt (\Aunt\). Sufficient evidence and manifest weight of the evidence supported juvenile court's decision where K.K. had significant developmental needs with which foster mother had more experience than Aunt. Further, Aunt had a history of substance abuse and tested positive throughout proceedings for alcohol and an additional substance with opiate-like effects, despite court's order that she stop using it.