State ex rel. Otten v. Henderson

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment denying a biological father’s complaint for a writ of prohibition to prevent the Clermont County Probate Court and its judge 1 and magistrate from proceeding on a stepfather’s adoption petition when, at the time the petition was filed, a previously filed, separate adoption proceeding involving the same child initiated in the Hamilton County Probate Court by the stepfather remained pending. Because under these circumstances, the Clermont County Probate Court patently and unambiguously lacked jurisdiction to proceed in the adoption case, we reverse the…