IN RE ADOPTION OF WALTERS

Nos. 2006-0613 and 2006-0614

112 Ohio St.3d 315 (2007)

2007-Ohio-7.

IN RE ADOPTION OF WALTERS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dagger, Johnston, Miller, Ogilvie & Hampson, L.L.P., and Randy L. Happeney, for appellant Robert L. Walters.

Steve Zigan, for appellant William Wright.

L. Jackson Henniger & Associates and L. Jackson Henniger, for appellee.


O'CONNOR, J.

{¶ 1} Today this court is called upon to determine whether the required notice of a hearing on an adoption proceeding under R.C. 3107.11 must include specific reference to both the consent and best-interests portions of that hearing to be sufficient under the Due Process Clause of the Ohio and United States Constitutions. We hold that neither the statute nor a biological parent...

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