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...A person guilty of any of the following acts may be punished as for a contempt: (A) Disobedience of, or resistance to, a lawful writ, process, order, rule, judgment, or command of a court or officer; (B) Misbehavior of an officer of the court in the performance of official duties, or in official transactions; (C) A failure to obey a subpoena duly served, or a refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness, wh...

...(A) As used in this section, "Title IV-D case" has the same meaning as in section 3125.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Any party who has a legal claim to any support ordered for a child, spouse, or former spouse may initiate a contempt action for failure to pay the support. In Title IV-D cases, the contempt action for failure to pay support also may be initiated by an attorney retained by the party who has the...

...As used in sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code: (A) "Mediation" means any process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute. (B) "Mediation communication" means a statement, whether oral, in a record, verbal or nonverbal, that occurs during a mediation or is made for purposes of considering, cond...

...(A) Before accepting a mediation, an individual who is requested to serve as a mediator shall do both of the following: (1) Make an inquiry that is reasonable under the circumstances to determine whether there are any known facts that a reasonable individual would consider likely to affect the impartiality of the mediator, including a financial or personal interest in the outcome of the mediation and an existing or ...

...(A) A provision in any written contract, except as provided in division (B) of this section, to settle by arbitration a controversy that subsequently arises out of the contract, or out of the refusal to perform the whole or any part of the contract, or any agreement in writing between two or more persons to submit to arbitration any controversy existing between them at the time of the agreement to submit, or arising ...

...To be valid and enforceable any arbitration agreements pursuant to sections 2711.01 and 2711.22 of the Revised Code for controversies involving a medical, dental, chiropractic, or optometric claim that is entered into prior to a patient receiving any care, diagnosis, or treatment shall include or be subject to the following conditions: (A) The agreement shall provide that the care, diagnosis, or treatment will be...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Arbitral award" means any decisions of the arbitral tribunal on the substance of the dispute submitted to it and includes an interim, interlocutory, or partial arbitral award. (B) "Arbitral tribunal" means a sole arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators. (C) "Arbitration" means any arbitration, whether or not administered by a permanent arbitral institution. (D) "Arbitration agreement" m...

...An arbitration or conciliation agreement is commercial if it arises out of a relationship of a commercial nature, including any of the following: (A) A transaction for the supply or exchange of goods or services; (B) A distribution agreement; (C) A commercial representation or agency; (D) An exploitation agreement or concession; (E) A joint venture or other related form of industrial or business cooperation; (F...

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all persons whose names are submitted for consideration for appointment or designation as arbitrators or conciliators, or who are appointed or designated as arbitrators or conciliators, within fifteen days of the submission, designation, or appointment, shall disclose to the parties any information that might cause their impartiality to be questioned, including any of the...

...(A) Any party to an arbitration within the scope of this chapter may apply to a court of common pleas in order to confirm or vacate any final award of an arbitral tribunal or to declare that the award is not entitled to confirmation by the courts of this state. The court shall dispose of all such applications as provided in division (B) of this section without regard to the law of the place of arbitration, the law go...

...Upon termination of the conciliation proceedings, the conciliator shall fix the costs of the conciliation and give written notice of the costs to the parties. As used in sections 2712.74 to 2712.90 of the Revised Code, "costs" includes only the following: (A) A reasonable fee to be paid to the conciliator or conciliators; (B) The travel and other reasonable expenses of the conciliator or conciliators; (C) The trav...

...An order for the arrest of the defendant shall be made by the clerk of the court in which the action is brought, when there is filed in his office an affidavit of the plaintiff, his authorized agent or attorney, made before a judge or clerk of any court of the state, stating the nature of the plaintiff's claim, that it is just, the amount of it as nearly as may be, and establishing one or more of the following parti...

...(A) An attachment against the property, other than personal earnings, of a defendant may be had in a civil action for the recovery of money, at or after its commencement, upon any one of the following grounds: (1) Excepting foreign corporations which by compliance with the law therefore are exempted from attachment as such, that the defendant or one of several defendants is a foreign corporation; (2) That the defen...

...A plaintiff in an action for the recovery of money, upon or at any time after the commencement of the action, may apply to the court by written motion for the attachment of property, other than personal earnings, of the defendant. The motion shall have attached to it the affidavit of the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, which shall set forth all of the following: (A) The nature and amount of the plaintiff's claim...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for attachment, a court may issue an order of attachment without issuing notice to the defendant against whom the motion was filed and without conducting a hearing if the court finds that there is probable cause to support the motion and that the plaintiff that filed the motion for attachment will suffer irreparable injury if the order is delayed until the defendant against whom the mo...

...(A) Subject to the limitation on the commencement of proceedings contained in division (B) of section 124.10 of the Revised Code, a proceeding in garnishment of personal earnings may be commenced after a judgment has been obtained by a judgment creditor by the filing of an affidavit in writing made by the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's attorney setting forth all of the following: (1) The name of...

...The garnishee shall be served, in the same manner as a summons is served, with three copies of the order of garnishment of personal earnings and of a written notice that the garnishee answer as provided in division (E) of section 2716.041 of the Revised Code, this section, and section 2716.21 of the Revised Code and with the garnishee's fee required by section 2716.04 of the Revised Code. The garnishee also shall be ...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of section 2716.041 of the Revised Code, if a continuous order of garnishment of personal earnings ceases to remain in effect because of the operation of division (C)(1) of that section, the garnishee shall file with the municipal or county court or court of common pleas that issued the order the garnishee's final report and answer that shall be substantially in the following form: "FINAL...

...(A) If the answer of a garnishee required by section 2716.05 or 2716.13 of the Revised Code is not made in writing as ordered by the court that issued the garnishment order, the answer shall be made before the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the garnishee resides or, if the garnishee resides outside of the state, before the clerk of the county in which the garnishee was served or in which th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Application" means, as context requires, an application under section 2717.02, 2717.04, or 2717.13 of the Revised Code. (B) "Applicant" means, as context requires, a person who makes the filing under section 2717.02 or 2717.04 of the Revised Code, or the minor on whose behalf a filing is made under section 2717.13 of the Revised Code. (C) "Conform" means to make a person's legal...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Defendant" means a person against whom an individual believes that, but for the expiration of the limitation period for the cause of action under section 2305.111 of the Revised Code, the individual would have a cause of action for assault or battery based on childhood sexual abuse. (2) "Prosecuting attorney" means the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the defendant resid...

...A civil action in quo warranto may be brought in the name of the state against a corporation: (A) When it has offended against a law providing for its creation or renewal, or any amendment thereof; (B) When it has forfeited its privileges and franchises by nonuser; (C) When it has committed or omitted an act which amounts to a surrender of its corporate rights, privileges, and franchises; (D) When it has misused ...

...(A) The powers of a receiver shall be set forth in the order of the court that appointed the receiver as those powers may be modified by the court or as otherwise approved by the court upon application of the receiver or a party to the action. (B) Under the control of the court that appointed the receiver as provided in section 2735.01 of the Revised Code, the receiver may do any of the following: (1) Bring and def...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Movant" means a party to an action who has filed a motion for an order of possession of specific personal property pursuant to section 2737.03 of the Revised Code. (B) "Respondent" means the party against whom a motion for an order of possession of specific personal property pursuant to section 2737.03 of the Revised Code is filed. (C) "Probable cause to support the motion" means that...

...Any party to an action involving a claim for the recovery of specific personal property, upon or at any time after commencement of the action, may apply to the court by written motion for an order of possession of the property. The motion shall have attached to it the affidavit of the movant, his agent, or his attorney containing all of the following: (A) A description of the specific personal property claimed and t...