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...(A) In a guardianship or protective proceeding in this state, a probate court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any of the following: (1) Hold an evidentiary hearing; (2) Order a person in that state to produce evidence or give testimony pursuant to the procedures of that state; (3) Order that an evaluation or assessment be made of the respondent; (4) Order any appropriat...

...The failure of the holder of a valid lien upon any of the assets of an estate to present the lienholder's claim upon the indebtedness secured by the lien, as provided in this chapter, shall not affect the lien if the same is evidenced by a document admitted to public record, or is evidenced by actual possession of the real or personal property that is subject to the lien.

...A vendor's lien not disclosed of record shall not, after the death of the vendee, have priority as against general creditors of the deceased.

...No real property of a deceased person that has been aliened or encumbered by the decedent's heirs prior to the issuing of letters testamentary or of administration shall be liable while in the possession or under the control of a bona fide purchaser for value or to the prejudice of a bona fide lessee or encumbrancer for value for debts of the deceased person unless letters testamentary or of administration are ...

...After vacation of the decree of the presumption of death has been established, as provided by section 2121.08 of the Revised Code, the person erroneously presumed to be dead, on motion filed of record stating the facts, may be substituted as plaintiff or petitioner in all actions or proceedings brought by the executor or administrator, whether prosecuted to judgment or decree or otherwise. That person, in all ...

...If a guardian's complaint in an action to obtain authority to sell real property seeks to have real property laid out in town lots, and the court finds it to the advantage of the ward, it shall authorize the survey and platting of the real property as provided by law. Upon subsequent return of the survey and plat, the court, if it approves it, shall authorize the guardian on behalf of the guardian's ward to sig...

...A will executed, proved, and allowed in a country other than the United States and territories thereof, according to the laws of such foreign state or country, may be allowed and admitted to record in this state in the manner and for the purpose mentioned in sections 2129.07 to 2129.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...An ancillary administrator shall file in the probate court of every county in this state in which real property of the nonresident decedent is located a certified copy of the records in the court of the ancillary administrator's appointment that affect the title to that real property.

...Trusts created by a will made out of this state and relating to lands situated herein may be executed as provided in sections 2129.28 to 2129.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, after the will is admitted to record in this state.

...If a trustee has been appointed under a foreign will that creates a trust relating to real property situated in this state by a foreign court according to the laws of the foreign jurisdiction, the trustee may execute the trust upon giving bond as provided in section 2129.28 of the Revised Code, and after satisfying the probate court of the county in which the real property or a part of it is situated, by an aut...

...(A)(1) An adult who is of sound mind voluntarily may execute at any time a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment. The declaration shall be signed at the end by the declarant or by another individual at the direction of the declarant, state the date of its execution, and either be witnessed as described in division (B)(1) of this section or be ack...

...(A) A declarant may revoke a declaration at any time and in any manner. The revocation shall be effective when the declarant expresses an intention to revoke the declaration, except that, if the declarant made the declarant's attending physician aware of the declaration, the revocation shall be effective upon its communication to the attending physician of the declarant by the declarant, a witness to the revoca...

...As used in sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the Revised Code, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (A) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a person, or the family of a person, has assigned primary responsibility for the treatment or care of the person or, if the person or the person's family has not assigned that responsibility, the physician who has accepted that responsibility. (B) "Declarat...

...As used in sections 2135.01 to 2135.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions" means the functional ability to understand information about the risks of, benefits of, and alternatives to the proposed mental health treatment, to rationally use that information, to appreciate how that information applies to...

...(A) A declaration may designate an adult to act as a proxy to make decisions about the mental health treatment of the declarant and may designate an adult as an alternate proxy as described in section 2135.02 of the Revised Code. A proxy designated to make decisions about mental health treatment may make decisions about mental health treatment on behalf of the declarant only when the declaration has become operative....

...(A) If a mental health treatment provider of a declarant or a health care facility providing services to a declarant is unwilling at any time to comply with the declarant's declaration, the mental health treatment provider or health care facility promptly shall notify the declarant and any proxy and document the notification in the declarant's medical record. The mental health treatment provider or health care facili...

...(A) The proxy under a declaration is not, as a result of acting in that capacity, personally liable for the cost of treatment provided to the declarant. Except to the extent the right is limited by the declaration or any federal law, a proxy has the same right as the declarant to receive information regarding the proposed mental health treatment of the declarant and to receive, review, and consent to disclosure of th...

...(A) A declarant may revoke a declaration at any time the declarant has the capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions. Any revocation of a declaration by a declarant shall be in writing, signed by the declarant, and dated. The revocation shall be effective upon its communication to the mental health treatment provider of the declarant or the health care facility providing services to the declarant. If t...

...(A) When disclosing digital assets of a user under this chapter, the custodian may, at its sole discretion, do any of the following: (1) Grant a fiduciary or designated recipient full access to the user's account; (2) Grant a fiduciary or designated recipient partial access to the user's account sufficient to perform the tasks with which the fiduciary or designated recipient is charged; (3) Provide a fiduciary or ...

...If a deceased user consented to or a court directs disclosure of the contents of electronic communications of the user, the custodian shall disclose to the personal representative of the estate of the user the content of an electronic communication sent or received by the user if the personal representative gives the custodian all of the following: (A) A written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form...

...The juvenile court is a court of record within the court of common pleas. The juvenile court has and shall exercise the powers and jurisdiction conferred in Chapters 2151. and 2152. of the Revised Code. Whenever the juvenile judge of the juvenile court is sick, is absent from the county, or is unable to attend court, or the volume of cases pending in court necessitates it, upon the request of the administrative juv...

...(A) The juvenile court has exclusive original jurisdiction under the Revised Code as follows: (1) Concerning any child who on or about the date specified in the complaint, indictment, or information is alleged to have violated section 2151.87 of the Revised Code or an order issued under that section or to be a juvenile traffic offender or a delinquent, unruly, abused, neglected, or dependent child and, based on an...

...(A) Upon its own motion, the motion of a court with domestic relations jurisdiction, or the motion of any interested party, a juvenile court may transfer jurisdiction over an action or an order it has issued for child support or custody as follows: (1) To the appropriate common pleas court with domestic relations jurisdiction, if the parents of the child subject to the action or order are married to each other and ...

...Except in a case in which the child is alleged to be a serious youthful offender under section 2152.13 of the Revised Code, if the child resides in a county of the state and the proceeding is commenced in a juvenile court of another county, that court, on its own motion or a motion of a party, may transfer the proceeding to the county of the child's residence upon the filing of the complaint or after the adjudicatory...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "IEP" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "504 plan" means a plan based on an evaluation conducted in accordance with section 504 of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 29 U.S.C. 794, as amended. (B) Upon the filing of a complaint, under section 2151.27 of the Revised Code, alleging that a child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child, the ju...