In Re Gutman

This is an appeal on questions of law from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Juvenile Division, granting custody of two minor children.

Essentially, the facts are not in dispute. The children, one a boy and the other a girl, were born to Joan Gutman and were fathered by Dixie Walker. Joan Gutman, at the time of conception and the birth of both children, was married to Charles Gutman from whom she had separated. Joan Gutman and Dixie Walker were living together when the births occurred and, in 1962, Walker acknowledged paternity in writing. Dixie Walker is now married to…