169 N.E.2d 34 | Ohio Ct. App. | 1960
On June 15, 1959, Elizabeth W. Kolody filed, in the Juvenile branch of the Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations, a petition stating that she and her husband, Melvin R. Kolody, were living separate and apart, and further that one child had been born as the issue of the parties.
The prayer of this petition sought only an order of custody and support for this minor child.
The trial court, after hearing, awarded the custody of the child (a boy, now about three and a half years old) to the mother, Elizabeth Kolody, and ordered the father, Melvin R. *261 Kolody, to pay to the mother $12.50 a week for the support of this child.
The appellant has lodged in this court an appeal on questions of law from such judgment, saying that the trial court erred, in that such court was without jurisdiction in the proceedings in the trial court to make an order requiring the father to support the minor child of the parties and fixing the amount of that support.
Counsel for the appellant say that the father, the appellant herein, is supporting the child, and will continue to do so, but that he objects to the jurisdiction of the trial court fixing the amount of such support in a purely custody proceeding.
Summit County is one of the counties having a Division of Domestic Relations within the Court of Common Pleas. To this Division of Domestic Relations has been assigned "* * * All the powers provided for in Sections
We do not have in Summit County a separate Juvenile Court. What Summit County does have is a Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations, exercising the powers and jurisdiction conferred upon Juvenile Courts by Chapter 2151, Revised Code. There are, in this state, two separate and independent Juvenile Courts — one located in Cuyahoga County (Section
Under Section
What, then, is embraced within the term "custody," as that word is used in this statute?
This court has heretofore stated the meaning of "custody" as used in the divorce and alimony statutes, as follows:
"Custody, as it is used in the divorce and alimony statute, connotes a keeping or guarding of a child of divorced parents. Black's Law Dictionary (Third Ed.) defines `custody' as `The care and keeping of anything * * *. Detention; charge; control; possession.'
"Custody includes within its meaning every element of provision for the physical, moral and mental well-being of the children. It implies that the person having custody has the immediate personal care and control of the children." Selby v.Selby, 69 Ohio Law Abs., 257, at pages 259 and 260, 124 N.E.2d 772.
The conclusion there reached, with respect to the meaning of the phrase there interpreted, seems equally applicable herein.
Section
We believe that the word "custody," as used in Section
We therefore determine herein that, when the question of custody only comes before a court, that court, by virtue of the authority granted in Section
The judgment must be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
DOYLE, P. J., and STEVENS, J., concur. *263