Parental rights - Ohio
Parental rights in Ohio
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When a non-parent or the state asks a court to override a fit parent's decision about their child, what must they show?
Ohio: Not yet reviewed
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Can parents' own custody or child-support agreement bind them without a judge approving it?
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One parent enrols the child in daycare, an activity or a private school without the other's agreement. Must the other parent pay a share?
Ohio: Child care share limited to work or education related cost
Statute: Ohio Rev. Code sec. 3119.05(P)(1)
Child care is shared as part of the support calculation, but only the cost found necessary to allow a parent to work or for employment training, only where it is verifiable by credible evidence, and net of any reimbursement or subsidy including a tax credit the parent could have claimed but did not. A cost outside that definition is not shared because one parent incurred it.
Authority
- Ohio Rev. Code sec. 3119.05(P)(1) Statute
(P) As part of the child support calculation, the parents shall be ordered to share the costs of child care. ... (1) The child care cost used in the calculation: (a) Shall be for the child determined to be necessary to allow a parent to work, or for activities related to employment training; (b) Shall be verifiable by credible evidence as determined by a court or child support enforcement agency; (c) Shall exclude any reimbursed or subsidized child care cost, including any state or federal tax credit for child care available to the parent or caretaker, whether or not claimed
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Dataset last reviewed 2026-10-17.