Ohio Child Custody, Support and Visitation Law: Ohio Laws

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Allocating parental rights and responsibilities for care of children, including provisions for shared parenting

Provision for temporary child custody order while modification hearing is pending.

Provisions for parenting time (visitation rights).

Restricts convicted domestic abuser's access to his victim's new address on an intent to relocate form in a custody case.

Court mediation of custody disputes.

If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by the disclosure of identifying information, the information shall be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public unless the court orders the disclosure to be made after a hearing in which the court takes into consideration the health, safety, and liberty of the party or child and determines that the disclosure is in the interests of justice.

Criminal nonpayment of child support. Failing to provide support for a total accumulated period of 26 weeks out of 104 consecutive weeks is a felony of the 5th degree.

Child support determinations

Calculation of Child Support Obligation

Collection and Disbursement of Child Support

Employer cannot fire you for having a wage garnishment for child or spousal support.

Defaults under Child Support Orders

Notice to registrar and deputies of indefinite suspension of driver's license for failure to pay child support; grant of limited driving privileges.

Duties of Child Support Enforcement Agency

Child Support

he administrative support order shall remain in effect during the pendency of the objection unless a party requests and is granted a stay by the court.

Model Parenting Time Schedule.

Form, based on the local rule.

Apply to civil litigation process issues in a divorce that are not covered by Rule 75 above.

These changes went into effect Jan. 1, 2016. They codify existing polices of the Franklin County Domestic and Juvenile Courts.

Secretary of State’s Address Confidentiality Program records are exempt from public records law.

Supreme Court of Ohio Domestic Relations Bench Card

Except as provided in divisions (G) and (I) of section 2301.03 of the Revised Code, which refers to Richland and Summit counties, the juvenile court has original jurisdiction to determine the parentage of any child alleged to have been born out of wedlock pursuant to sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code.

Parent and child relationship defined.

The department of job and family services shall establish a putative father registry. A putative father may register at any time. For the purpose of preserving the requirement of his consent to an adoption, a putative father shall register before or not later than fifteen days after the birth of the child.

An attorney arranging a minor's adoption, a mother, a public children services agency, a private noncustodial agency, or a private child placing agency may request at any time that the department of job and family services search the putative father registry to determine whether a man is registered as the minor's putative father.