In re R.B.

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1705

Syllabus

The juvenile court did not err by denying appellant's motion to dismiss a children service agency's complaints alleging her two children were abused and dependent children because the juvenile court did not hold its disposition hearings for either child within the 90-day timeframe set forth by the now former R.C. 2151.35(B)(1) as such failure does not divest the juvenile court of subject matter jurisdiction and appellant's argument was barred by res judicata given her failure to raise such a challenge on appeal from the juvenile court's dispositional decisions granting temporary custody of both children to the children services agency. The juvenile court also did not err by granting permanent custody of appellant's two children to a children service agency where the record provided sufficient credible evidence to support the juvenile court's decision finding it was in the children's best interest to grant permanent custody of both children to the children service agency. This included evidence that both chi