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...ed Code against a foreign executor or administrator also apply to the person and property of a foreign administrator or executor. The probate court or the court of common pleas may make any order or decree touching a foreign executor's or administrator's property and effects, or the assets of the estate, necessary for the security of those interested in the property, effects, or assets.

...An executor or administrator appointed in any other state or country may commence and prosecute an action or proceeding in any court in this state, in the capacity as executor or administrator, in the same manner and under the same restrictions as a nonresident is permitted to sue.

...If it appears that a legatee or a distributee, or a beneficiary of a trust not residing within the United States or its territories will not have the benefit, use, or control of the money or other property due the legatee or distributee from the estate or due the beneficiary from the trust, because of circumstances prevailing at the place of residence of the legatee or distributee, or the beneficiary of the tru...

...When a person entitled to money or other property invested or turned into the county treasurer or to a trustee under section 2113.81 of the Revised Code satisfies the probate court of the person's right to receive it, the court shall order the county treasurer or the trustee to pay it over to the person.

.... (D) "Fiduciary" means an executor, administrator, or other person who, by virtue of representing the decedent's estate, is required to pay the tax.

...arged in the same manner as a general administration expense. However, when a portion of the residue of the estate or trust is allowable as a deduction for estate tax purposes, the tax shall be reapportioned to the extent possible to the portion of the residue that is not so allowable. (C)(1) A tax shall not be apportioned against an interest that is allowable as an estate tax marital or charitable deduction, except...

...Except as provided in section 5815.27 of the Revised Code, the generation-skipping transfer tax imposed by Chapter 13 of subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2718, 26 U.S.C. 2601-2624, as amended, and the generation-skipping tax levied by division (B) of section 5731.181 of the Revised Code shall be apportioned in the manner described in section 2113.86 of the Revised Code.

...e the application within the thirty-day period, the person is bound by the manner of apportionment determined by the fiduciary. The notice described in this division shall state the name and address of the probate court with jurisdiction over the apportionment and include the following statement: "If you fail to file an objection to this proposed apportionment with the probate court within thirty days of the r...

...te court that has jurisdiction of the administration of the estate. (B) If the property held by the fiduciary is distributed prior to final apportionment of the tax, the distributee shall provide a bond or other security for the apportionment liability in the form and amount prescribed by the fiduciary, with the approval of the probate court that has jurisdiction of the administration of the estate.

...t or proceedings within the three-month period shall not be subject to any liability or surcharge because any portion of the tax apportioned to any person interested in the estate was collectible at a time following the death of the decedent but after that time became uncollectible. If, after making a reasonable attempt to collect the tax, the fiduciary cannot collect from any person interested in the estate the amou...

...he court that has jurisdiction of the administration of the decedent's estate in the other state shall be prima-facie correct. (B) This section applies only if either of the following apply: (1) The other state affords a remedy substantially similar to that afforded in division (A) of this section; (2) With respect to the federal estate tax, if apportionment is authorized by the congress of the United States.

...As used in Chapters 2113. to 2125., inclusive, of the Revised Code, "inventory" includes appraisement.

... after the date of the executor's or administrator's appointment, unless the probate court grants an extension of time for good cause shown, the executor or administrator shall file with the court an inventory of the decedent's interest in real property located in this state and of the tangible and intangible personal property of the decedent that is to be administered and that has come to the executor's or ad...

...If an executor or administrator neglects or refuses to return an inventory as provided by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall issue an order requiring the executor or administrator, at an early day specified in the order, to return an inventory. After personal service of the order by a person authorized to make the service, if the executor or administrator, by the day appointed, does no...

...de, must be served by the executor or administrator on the surviving spouse, but such notice may be waived in writing by such surviving spouse.

... of the Revised Code, the executor or administrator, with the aid of the appraiser, if an appraisement is to be made, shall make the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code.

... person appointed by the executor or administrator, subject to the approval of the court and sworn to a faithful discharge of the trust. The executor or administrator, subject to the approval of the court, may appoint separate appraisers of property located in any other county and appoint separate appraisers for each asset. In lieu of the appointment of an appraiser for real property, the executor or administ...

...Before proceeding to the execution of their duties, the appraisers of a decedent's estate shall agree that they will truly, honestly, and impartially appraise the estate and property exhibited to them and perform the other duties required in the premises according to the best of their knowledge and ability. In the presence of the surviving spouse, next of kin, legatees, devisees, or creditors of the testator or inte...

...sed and are known to the executor or administrator. The inventory shall specify the name of the debtor in each security, the date, the sum originally payable, the endorsements on the securities with their dates, the serial numbers or other identifying data as to each security, and the sum that, in the judgment of the appraisers, can be collected on each claim. The inventory shall contain a statement of all de...

...under the control of the executor or administrator and shall be included in the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code. The executor or administrator, or the person to whom the executor or administrator sells the emblements, at all reasonable times may enter upon the lands to cultivate, sever, and gather them.

...The discharge or bequest, in a will, of a debt or demand of a testator against an executor named in the will, or against any other person, is not valid as against the decedent's creditors, but is only a specific bequest of that debt or demand. The amount of the debt or demand shall be included in the inventory of the credits and effects of the deceased and, if necessary, that amount shall be applied in the paym...

...The naming of a person as executor in a will shall not operate as a discharge or bequest of a just claim that the testator had against that executor. The claim shall be included among the assets of the deceased in the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code. The executor shall be liable for it as for so much money in the possession or under the control of the executor at the time that debt or ...

... shall be retained by the executor or administrator who shall return the original to the probate court.

...g on the inventory. The executor or administrator may serve notice of the hearing, or may cause the notice to be served, upon any person who is interested in the estate. The probate court, after notice to the executor or administrator, either upon the motion of any interested party for good cause shown or at its own instance, may order that notice of the hearing is to be served upon persons the court designat...

...When the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code has been approved by the probate court, the appraisement of the real property as set forth in the inventory shall be conclusive for all purposes except estate tax, unless a reappraisal is ordered by the court.