JOHN S WHYDE

John and his husband, Duane, live in the Merion Village area of Columbus. John has two grown children and two grandchildren... - the process that makes a person the legal parent of a child not born to that person. In Ohio in a same-gender marriage, if one of the couple became the legal parent of a child before the marriage, the other must now adopt the child to assure that he or she is also a legal parent of that child... - a court order that gives equal custody with the legal parent of a child to another person who is not married to the legal parent of that child. (In Ohio, only one single person or a married couple may adopt a child.