State ex rel. Allen Cty. Children Servs. Bd. v. Mercer Cty. Common Pleas Court, Probate Div. (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 42} To achieve the result it desires in this case, the new majority reframes the question in such a way that it can be answered only in the affirmative: “The issue in this case is whether a probate court may exercise its exclusive jurisdiction over adoption proceedings while a juvenile court is concurrently exercising continuing jurisdiction over a child custody proceeding.” (Emphasis sic.) Majority opinion at ¶ 1.

{¶ 43} The actual question before us, however, is whether a probate court may exercise its exclusive jurisdiction over adoption proceedings while a juvenile court is exercising…