In re J.J.

*206{¶ 1} The Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services appeals from a decision of the Eighth District Court of Appeals that held that a magistrate’s assignment of this permanent-custody case to a visiting judge rendered the subsequent proceedings void.

{¶ 2} The record before us reveals that on August 31, 2000, Shannon Jeffi gave birth to J.J., the minor child who is the subject of this permanent-custody dispute. Upon his release from the hospital five weeks later, the Department of Children and Family Services placed J.J. with his foster mother, Sharon Snyder. In August 2002,…