COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA NO. 60014, 60668 DEBORA A. MALLIN : : Plaintiff-appellee : : JOURNAL ENTRY vs. : and : OPINION CHRISTOPHER J. MALLIN : : Defendant-appellant : : : DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION : APRIL 16, 1992 CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING : Civil appeal from : Court of Common Pleas : Case No. D-173,948 JUDGMENT : AFFIRMED. DATE OF JOURNALIZATION : _______________________ APPEARANCES: For plaintiff-appellee: STEVEN MILES Attorney at Law Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency Cuyahoga Cty. Court House, #181 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 For defendant-appellant: CHRISTOPHER J. MALLIN, pro se Post Office Box 46565 Bedford, Ohio 44146 -1- FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, J.: Defendant-appellant, Christopher J. Mallin, timely appeals the trial court's sua sponte correction of a judgment entry pursuant to Civ. R. 60(A) and the trial court's adoption of the report and recommendation of the referee. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the trial court. The pertinent facts are as follows: Plaintiff-appellee, Debora Mallin, filed a divorce complaint on November 3, 1986. After trial, a judgment entry of divorce was entered on June 13, 1988, which provided for support of their three minor children. At Vol. No. 1373, page 276 of the entry, the trial court determined that appellant ". . . should pay to Plaintiff the sum of Forty Dollars ($40.00) per week per child as his contribution to their basic support." (Emphasis added.) However, at Vol. No. 1373, page 298 of the same entry, the trial court ordered that ". . . Defendant shall pay to Plaintiff as his contribution to the support of the minor children, the sum of $40.00 per week, . . .." (Emphasis added.) - 2 - Appellee filed an affidavit for citation against appellant for failing to make total child support payments of one hundred twenty dollars per week. The citation hearing was held before a referee on May 4, 1990. On May 29, 1990, prior to issuance of the referee's report, the trial court sua sponte corrected page 298 of the original judgment entry to reflect that appellant was to pay forty dollars per week per child for a total of one hundred twenty dollars per week effective June 13, 1988. On July 10, 1990, the referee set forth that appellant's child support obligation is forty dollars per week per child and that appellant was in arrears of $7,956.35 as of May 7, 1990. The trial court overruled appellant's objections to the referee's report and recommendation. Appellant now timely appeals, raising one assign-ment of error in Case No. 60014 and one assignment of error in Case No. 60668, which have been consolidated by this court for review. ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR - CASE NO. 60014 DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S SOLE ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR IS THAT THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ITS SUA SPONTE ACTION OF MAY 22, 1990, IN CHANG- ING THE AMOUNT OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERED IN THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL ENTRY MADE HEREIN JUNE 13, 1988, BY CHANGING THE AMOUNT FROM "$40.00 PER WEEK" AS APPEARS IN THE ORIGINAL ORDER, AT DIV. JR. 1373, PAGE 298, TO "$40.00 PER WEEK PER CHILD", WHICH CHANGE TRIPLES THE AMOUNT OF CHILD SUPPORT. Appellant contends the trial court erred in sua sponte cor- recting the judgment entry pursuant to Civ. R. 60(A). This argu- ment is without merit. - 3 - Pursuant to Civ. R. 60(A), the court has the power to cor- rect a clerical error in a judgment entry at any time on its own initiative. Dentsply Internatl., Inc. v. Kostas (1985), 26 Ohio App. 3d 116. A review of the record in the present case demonstrates that the appellant, an attorney, was required to pay the sum of fifty dollars per week per child as temporary child support and that in the final judgment entry of divorce, Vol. 1373, page 276, the trial court determined that "due to the nature of Defendant's earning ability" he should pay "$40.00 per week per child" as child sup-port. Based upon the above, we conclude that page 298 of the judgment entry which ordered appellant to pay "$40.00 per week" contained a clerical omission in failing to state "per child." It is clear from the record that the trial court intend- ed to order appellant to pay forty dollars per week per child. Therefore, we conclude that the trial court did not err in sua sponte correcting page 298 of the entry to read "$40.00 per week per child." This assignment of error is overruled. - 4 - ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR - CASE NO. 60668 DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S SOLE ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR IS THAT THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ITS ACTION OF SEPTEMBER 18, 1990, IN OVERRULING THE OBJECTIONS TO THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDA- TION OF THE REFEREE AND IN APPROVING THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF THE REFEREE ARISING FROM THE HEARING HELD MAY 4, 1990. THE ORDER OF THE TRIAL COURT OVERRULING THE OBJECTIONS AND APPROVING THE REPORT OF THE REFEREE WAS ENTERED AT DIVORCE JOURNAL VOLUME 1677, PAGE 369 TO 371. Appellant contends the trial court erred in overruling his objections to the report and recommendation of the referee and in approving the report and recommendation. This argument is with- out merit. It is well established that the trial court may adopt the findings of the referee where the report contains a complete statement of the facts presented at the hearing, which served as the basis for the referee's recommendation. McMullen v. Muir (1986), 34 Ohio App. 3d 241. In the present case, the referee had a hearing on appellee's affidavit for citation and filed a report containing the state- ment of facts which served as the basis for its recommendation. Upon a careful review of the record in the instant case, we find that the referee's report accurately represents the evidence submitted at the hearing with respect to the appellant's obliga- tion to pay child support at forty dollars per week per child effective June 13, 1988 and concludes that appellant is in ar- rears. The referee's report contains adequate information upon - 5 - which the trial court could find that appellant's arrearage was $7,956.35 as of May 7, 1990. Furthermore, contrary to appel- lant's argument that an increase in his bond to one thousand dollars was improper, R.C. 3113.21(6) permits the court to re- quire a bond where the obligor, as in the present case, is in arrears of payments. Thus, we find the trial court did not err in approving the referee's report and recommendation. Accordingly, this assignment of error is overruled. Judgment affirmed. - 6 - It is ordered that appellee recover of appellant her costs herein taxed. The Court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal. It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this Court directing the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Domes- tic Relations Division, to carry this judgment into execution. A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the mandate pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure. DAVID T. MATIA, C.J. NAHRA, J. CONCUR JUDGE FRANCIS E. SWEENEY N.B. This entry is made pursuant to the third sentence of Rule 22(D), Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure. This is an announce- ment of decision (see Rule 26). Ten (10) days from the date hereof, this document will be stamped to indicate journalization, at which time it will become the judgment and order of the court and time period for review will begin to run. .