Hardesty v. Hardesty

Since courts of concurrent jurisdiction are not involved, and since the Wood County Juvenile Court has both exhausted and abandoned its jurisdiction, I must respectfully dissent.

Pursuant to R.C. 2151.23(A)(2), a juvenile court has “exclusive original jurisdiction * * * [t]o determine the custody of any child not a ward of another court of this state.” Pursuant to R.C. 3105.21 and 3109.04(A), the court of common pleas, division of domestic relations, has ancillary custody jurisdiction in a divorce case. The common pleas court may certify the custody issue to the juvenile court. See R.C.…