Desalvo v. Sukalski

The action on appeal was brought in juvenile court on a complaint filed pursuant to R.C. Chapter 3111, and specifically under authority of R.C. 3111.01. The chapter involves paternity proceedings.

We note first of all that the Rules of Juvenile Procedure, according to Juv. R. 1(C)(4), do not apply “in proceedings to determine the paternity of any child born out of wedlock.”

Although bastardy proceedings are partly of a civil and partly of a criminal nature, partaking of both, but, in fact, are not strictly either, these proceedings, as noted in 7 Ohio Jurisprudence 2d Rev. 538, Bastardy,…