In Re Adoption of Mays

This cause came to be heard upon the appeal from the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division.

The appellant, Patrick Lynn Taylor, (“Taylor”), is the natural father of Patrick Lynn Mays and Jonathon Andrew Mays. Taylor appeals herein from the judgment of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division (“probate court”) awarding permanent custody of his two minor children to their maternal grandmother, petitioner-appellee Barbara Sue Mays (“Mays”).

In November 1984, Mays filed a petition in probate court for the adoption of Patrick Lynn Mays and Jonathon Andrew Mays.…