5/17/2019
Announcement H.B. 595, effective March 22, 2019, changed the jurisdiction of Ohio juvenile courts and domestic relations courts in certain child custody and child support cases. Ohio juvenile courts can no longer determine custody or support regarding a child if any of the following apply: The child’s parents are married; The child’s parents are not married and there is an existing order for custody or support regarding the child or the child’s sibling over which the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction; The determination is related to the parents’ pending action for divorce, dissolution of marriage, annulment, or legal separation. This means that Ohio domestic relations courts now have authority to hear and determine child support and child custody cases in which the parents are still married. It also means domestic relations courts now have authority over support and custody cases involving children of unmarried parents who were previously married to each other and the domestic relations court that terminated the marriage issued custody or support orders for the parents’ other children. It also means that domestic relations courts now have authority over support and custody cases in which the parents are married but have filed to end their marriage and are now in that process. New cases must now be filed in the county’s domestic relations court. The law permits juvenile courts to transfer jurisdiction to the domestic relations court in existing cases in certain circumstances. Please contact the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court Help Center for more information.
Announcement H.B. 595, effective March 22, 2019, changed the jurisdiction of Ohio juvenile courts and domestic relations courts in certain child custody and child support cases. Ohio juvenile courts can no longer determine custody or support regarding a child if any of the following apply:
This means that Ohio domestic relations courts now have authority to hear and determine child support and child custody cases in which the parents are still married.
It also means domestic relations courts now have authority over support and custody cases involving children of unmarried parents who were previously married to each other and the domestic relations court that terminated the marriage issued custody or support orders for the parents’ other children.
It also means that domestic relations courts now have authority over support and custody cases in which the parents are married but have filed to end their marriage and are now in that process.
New cases must now be filed in the county’s domestic relations court. The law permits juvenile courts to transfer jurisdiction to the domestic relations court in existing cases in certain circumstances.
Please contact the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court Help Center for more information.