BY: Heidi J.: Title: Hardin County Court of Common Pleas’ final judgment entry of divorce designating the ex-wife custody of the minor child and declining to adopt Plaintiff-appellants proposed shared parenting plan. Has been affirmed.

Link for opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/3/2012/2012-ohio-5133.pdf

Husband filed a divorce complaint alleging gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty and adultery. Also filed a paternity test.

On December 1^st, 2010, the paternity test was submitted to the trial court indicating that the husband was the biological father of the child.

The magistrate issued a decision awarding residential custody of the child to the mother and denied the fathers motion for shared parenting.

The magistrate concluded that shared parenting would not be in the child’s best interest since the parents could not cooperate or communicator with one another. The father initially destabilized the family relationship and the mother has been the child’s primary caregiver.