Step 1: Determine your court and type of case · Step 2: Complete your paperwork · Step 3: Get your paperwork notarized · Step 4: Open your case · Step 5: File ...

Complete a "Complaint for Parentage, Allocation of Parental Rights and Responsibilities (Custody), Parenting Time (Companionship and Visitation)" form. This ...

In shared parenting, both parents share legal custody, meaning both parents make key decisions together about how to raise the child. A child does not have to ...

However, either parent may file a motion with the court requesting a Shared Parenting Decree and file an Ohio Shared Parenting Plan at least 30 days prior to ...

Although these forms are provided by the Supreme Court of Ohio, they should be filed in the local county court. Please note that the local court may have ...

In most cases, Ohio family court judges prefer shared parenting over sole custody. However, the burden is on the parents and their child custody lawyer to prove ...

Under Ohio law if parents are not married and no court has issued an order of visitation, no parent other than the biological mother has any legally established ...

Both are the legal guardian of the child while a minor. In Ohio, shared custody must be created through a document called a shared parenting plan. The shared ...

An adult can file a custody case in either the Domestic Relations or Juvenile Court in the county where the child lives. Then, the judge can decide to issue a ...