In re S/F Children

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 822

Syllabus

PERMANENT CUSTODY – PARENTAL TERMINATION – BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD – INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: The juvenile court's award of permanent custody to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services was supported by sufficient evidence and not against the manifest weight of the evidence where domestic violence was the basis for removing the children from the home, where that domestic violence persisted throughout the proceedings, and where the trial court reasonably determined that mother and father continued to be \intertwined in each other's lives.\ The juvenile court did not plainly err in not rejecting the magistrate's decision because of the alleged ineffective assistance of the children's appointed counsel.