Adoption Link, Inc. v. Suver

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a private child-placing agency to obtain custody of a child. Because the petition failed to state a viable habeas corpus claim, we affirm.

{¶ 2} Kathy Jo Teegarden and Roy John Jones Jr. are the biological parents of T.J., who was born on December 30, 2005. Shortly after T.J.’s birth, the Clark County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, Juvenile Section placed the child in the temporary-shelter care of the Clark County Department of Job and Family Services. T.J. was placed in a…