IN RE ADOPTION OF HOLCOMB

Nos. 84-1345 and 84-1755.

18 Ohio St. 3d 361 (1985)

IN RE ADOPTION OF HOLCOMB ET AL. IN RE ADOPTION OF BRADFORD ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 7, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Condo, Walsh, Schiavone & Miller Co., L.P.A., and Fred Miller, for appellant in case No. 84-1345.

Mary G. Nash & Associates, Mary G. Nash and Jennifer J. Batliner, for appellee in case No. 84-1345.

William C. Martin, for appellee in case No. 84-1755.

Cassity, Kelly & Goettke Co., L.P.A., and Michael P. Kelly, for appellant in case No. 84-1755.


WRIGHT, J.

Today we are asked to evaluate R.C. 3107.07(A) in order to determine the legislature's intended meaning of the terms "communicate" and "without justifiable cause." Until now, this court has not taken the opportunity to appraise this statutory provision to establish when parental consent to adoption is or is not required under such facts as are presented herein. However, a number of appellate courts have assessed this provision in situations apposite to...

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