In re M.S.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5835

Syllabus

PARENTAL TERMINATION — PERMANENT CUSTODY —REASONABLE EFFORTS — EVIDENCE — SUFFICIENCY — MANIFEST WEIGHT: The juvenile court's decision to commit the children to the permanent custody of the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services was based on competent, credible evidence where the parents' visitation never progressed from supervised, they failed to obtain stable housing and income and submit to drug tests, they did not demonstrate understanding of the children's trauma and special needs, and although the parents obtained housing they did so less than four months prior to the trial on the permanent-custody motion and had no furniture for the children in the home. Where Mother failed to assert in her objections to the magistrate's decision that the juvenile court did not make reasonable-efforts findings, she has failed to preserve this argument for appeal.