In re N.J.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1641

Syllabus

Permanent custody—the trial court's permanent custody judgment was not against the manifest weight of the evidence; the children had been in the agency's temporary custody for approximately two years; competent and credible evidence supported the trial court's best interest determination; appellant abandoned the children by failing to visit them for over one year; the mother abandoned the children by failing to visit them for more than 90 days; the three youngest children were happy in the foster home, and the foster parents intended to adopt them; the oldest child lived in a residential facility due to behavioral issues but ultimately wished to be placed with his siblings; the three youngest children wished to remain in the foster home, and the guardian ad litem recommended that the court place all four children in the agency's permanent custody; neither parent had obtained a stable home for the children