IN RE McBRIDE; HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF JOB AND FAMILY SERVICES, APPELLANT; FUGATE, APPELLEE.
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Submitted October 26, 2005.
Decided July 19, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, Lashawn C. Hart, and Mark Resler, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant.
Christopher P. Kapsal, for appellee.
Hamilton County Public Defender Guardian Ad Litem Division and Kimberly A. Helfrich, for guardian ad litem.
Philip M. Collins & Associates and Trevor Clark; and Kent Markus, urging reversal for amicus curiae, National Center for Adoption Law and Policy.
Supreme Court of Ohio.
LANZINGER, J.
{¶ 1} We accepted this discretionary appeal to determine whether a natural parent who lost permanent custody of a child has standing to file a petition for custody of that child as a nonparent.
{¶ 2} In the summer of 1996, appellant, Hamilton County Department of Human Services, now known as Hamilton County Job and Family Services ("HCJFS"), filed a complaint...
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