COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT 
                        COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA 
                                NO. 68568
IN THE MATTER OF:             :
  CAROLYN WHEAT               :
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        Plaintiff-Appellee    :
                              :      JOURNAL ENTRY
     -vs-                     :           AND
                              :         OPINION
                              :
                              :
        Defendant-Appellant   :
                              :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
  OF DECISION:                DECEMBER 5, 1996     
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:      CIVIL APPEAL FROM THE 
                              JUVENILE COURT DIVISION
                              COMMON PLEAS COURT
                              CASE NO. 9412867
JUDGMENT:                     APPEAL DISMISSED.  
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:                           
APPEARANCES:
For Plaintiff-Appellee:       VICKI LYNN WARD (#0030905)
                              1276 WEST THIRD STREET - Suite 100
                              CLEVELAND, OHIO 44113
For Appellee, Cuyahoga
County Department of
Children and Family 
Services:                     CYNTHIA BOWERS (#0026154)
                              3955 Euclid Avenue
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44115
For Defendant-Appellant:      JOHN P. PARKER (#0041243)
                              4403 St. Clair Avenue
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44103
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SPELLACY, C.J.:  
     Appeal dismissed for lack  of a final, appealable order.   The
journal entry  from which this  appeal is taken  does not bear  the
signature of  the trial  judge.   The trial  judge's signature  was
rubber-stamped on the journal  entry.  The journal entry  later was
signed by the administrative judge and  time stamped after the term
of the trial  judge expired.  This court previously has held that a
rubber stamp used  in lieu of  a judge's signature is  unacceptable
pursuant to Civ.R.  58(A).  In re  Mitchell (1994), 93  Ohio App.3d
153.  See also Brackmann Communications,  Inc. v. Ritter (1987), 38
Ohio App.3d 107.  It  is unclear from the record if the trial judge
prepared the  final journal  entries or00000 even  saw the  journal
entries.    The administrative  judge's  signature cannot  cure the
defect of the use of the rubber stamp.  Another judge cannot render
judgment if there  are inadequate findings of  fact and conclusions
of law rendered by the trial  judge.  See Vergon v. Vergon  (1993),
87 Ohio App.3d 639.   As the judgment entry  was not signed by  the
trial judge and does not comply  with the dictates of Civ.R. 58(A),
there is no final order before this court.  
     Appeal dismissed.  
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     It  is ordered  that appellee  recover of appellant  his 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  Juvenile Court 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.  
JAMES M. PORTER, J. and         
TIMOTHY E. McMONAGLE, J. CONCUR.
 LEO M. SPELLACY
                                            CHIEF JUSTICE
N.B.  This is an announcement of  the court's decision.  See App.R.
22(B),  22(D)  and 26(A);  Loc.App.R. 27.    This decision  will be
journalized and will  become the  judgment and order  of the  court
pursuant to App.R. 22(B)  unless a motion for  reconsideration with
supporting brief, per App.R.  26(A), is filed within ten  (10) days
of the announcement of  the court's decision.  The time  period for
review by the  Supreme Court of  Ohio shall begin  to run upon  the
journalization  of  this court's  announcement  of decision  by the
.