This page provides library resources and links to Ohio laws about child custody. Please refer to the Establishing Custody and Parenting Time, Modifying Custody and Parenting Time, Grandparent and Nonparent Custody and Visitation and Shared Parenting tabs of this guide for legal forms for obtaining or modifying child custody.
For information about temporary child custody during divorce proceedings, see the Ohio Divorce with Children guide on this website.
Attorneys with a Franklin County Law Library card may check out these books. Other members of the public may use them in the Franklin County Law Library. The Library maintains the current edition of each of these books, unless otherwise noted.
Anderson's Ohio Family Law by 
Baldwin's Ohio Domestic Relations Law by 
Child Custody Evaluation: New Theoretical Applications and Research by 
Child Custody & Visitation: Law and Practice by 
Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio by 
Family Law and Practice by 
Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody & Support by 
Ohio Family Law Handbook by 
Ohio Family Law Institute by 
The parental alienation syndrome: a family therapy and collaborative systems approach to amelioration by 