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...The department of job and family services shall prepare an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit that includes in boldface type at the top of the affidavit the rights and responsibilities of and the due process safeguards afforded to a person who acknowledges that he is the natural father of a child, including that if an alleged father acknowledges a parent and child relationship he assumes the parental duty of suppo...

...A child support enforcement agency shall attach a notice to each order for genetic testing and send both to the mother and the alleged father. The notice shall state all of the following: (A) That the agency has been asked to determine the existence of a parent and child relationship between a child and the alleged named father; (B) The name and birthdate of the child of which the man is alleged to be the natural f...

...The contract between the department of job and family services and a local hospital shall require all of the following: (A) That the hospital provide a staff person to meet with each unmarried mother who gave birth in or en route to the hospital within twenty-four hours of the birth or before the mother is released from the hospital; (B) That the staff person attempt to meet with the father of the unmarried mot...

...If an administrative officer schedules an administrative support hearing in accordance with section 3111.80 of the Revised Code, the administrative officer shall include in the notice described in section 3111.80 of the Revised Code a request that each parent provide the child support enforcement agency, not later than the date scheduled for formally beginning the administrative hearing, all of the following: (A) A...

...As used in sections 3111.88 to 3111.96 of the Revised Code: (A) "Artificial insemination" means the introduction of semen into the vagina, cervical canal, or uterus through instruments or other artificial means. (B) "Donor" means a man who supplies semen for a non-spousal artificial insemination. (C) "Non-spousal artificial insemination" means an artificial insemination of a woman with the semen of a man who is n...

...(A) A woman who gives birth to a child born as a result of embryo donation shall be treated in law and regarded as the natural mother of the child, and the child shall be treated in law and regarded as the natural child of the woman. No action or proceeding under this chapter shall affect the relationship. (B) If a married woman gives birth to a child born as a result of embryo donation to which her husband consente...

...As used in sections 3113.33 to 3113.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Domestic violence" means any of the following: (1) Attempting to cause or causing bodily injury to a family or household member, or placing a family or household member by threat of force in fear of imminent physical harm; (2) Attempting to cause or causing bodily injury to a person with whom the actor is or was in a dating relationship, or placin...

...Nothing in sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code shall affect the ability of the court to apportion the assets or debts of the parties as provided for in the Revised Code, or the ability to determine temporary use, possession, and control of personal property pursuant to division (E)(1)(h) of section 3113.31 of the Revised Code.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. (B) "Child-support order" means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state ...

...(A) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and either of the following applies: (1) At the time of the filing of a request for modification, this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for...

...(A) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and only one tribunal has issued a child-support order, the order of that tribunal controls and must be recognized. (B) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and two or more child-support orders have been issued by tribunals of this state, another state, or a foreign country with regard to the same obligor and same child, a court of this state having personal...

...(A) When a responding support enforcement agency of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to division (B) of section 3115.301 of the Revised Code, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed. (B) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or mo...

...(A) A support enforcement agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter. (B) A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the petitioner shall do all of the following: (1) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent; ...

...(A) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child. (B) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded u...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 3115.706 of the Revised Code, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state: (1) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement; (2) Two copies, including one certified copy, of the order to b...

...(A) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. (B) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, sections 3115.706 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code apply. (C) In a direct request for re...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 3115.311 and division (A) of section 3115.602 of the Revised Code, a request for regist...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, sections 3115.605 to 3115.608 of the Revised Code apply to a contest of a registered convention support order. (B) A party contesting a registered convention support order shall file a contest not later than thirty days after notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not reside in the United States, the contest ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, a court of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state. (B) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be accompanied by both of the following: (1) A complete text of the foreign support agreement; (2) A record stating that the foreign ...

...(A) Prior to or during pendency of any action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation, one or both spouses may file in the court of common pleas a petition for conciliation, to preserve the marriage by effecting a reconciliation, or to amicably settle the controversy between the spouses, so as to avoid further litigation over the issues involved. (B) The petition shall be captioned substantially as follows: I...

...(A) The conciliation judge shall fix a reasonable time and place for hearing on the petition within thirty days after the date it is filed, and shall cause such manner of notice of the filing of the petition and the time and place for hearing as he finds necessary to be given to the parties and respondents. The court may issue a citation to any party or respondent requiring him to appear at the time and place stated ...

...During the period beginning with the filing of the petition for conciliation and continuing until expiration of any court order made pursuant to division (E) of section 3117.06 of the Revised Code, neither spouse may file or proceed with any action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation. The pendency of an action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation does not bar proceedings for conciliation under this ch...

...(A) The director of the department of job and family services shall create, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a basic child support schedule based on the parents' combined annual income and a self-sufficiency reserve that shall be used by all courts and child support enforcement agencies when calculating the amount of child support to be paid pursuant to a child support order, unles...

...(A) At least once every four years, the department of job and family services shall review the basic child support schedule issued by the department pursuant to section 3119.021 of the Revised Code to determine whether child support orders issued in accordance with that schedule and the worksheets created under rules adopted under section 3119.022 of the Revised Code adequately provide for the needs of children who a...

...The court may consider any of the following factors in determining whether to grant a deviation pursuant to section 3119.22 of the Revised Code: (A) Special and unusual needs of the child or children, including needs arising from the physical or psychological condition of the child or children; (B) Other court-ordered payments; (C) Extended parenting time or extraordinary costs associated with parenting time, i...